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September 01 CEOs Who Cut the Most Jobs Earn More than Peers
The 17th annual Executive Excess report shows that CEOs are squeezing workers to boost short-term profits and their own paychecks.

August 30 Statement of Phyllis Bennis in advance of President Obama's speech detailing 'the end of the war in Iraq'
The director of the Institute's New Internationalism project says there's no victory to claim in Iraq.

August 12 Top U.S. Leadership Endorses Unified Security Budget
Pentagon plans for cuts won’t change security spending balance

July 26 Statement from Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project
The Institute's Middle East expert issues a statement on the Wikileaks release on U.S./NATO actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

July 12 Immigration Debate Ignores Causes
Experts available for comment on immigration.

June 23 African-American Woman to Head the Institute for Policy Studies for First Time
Longtime Director of Institute Begins Year-long Sabbatical

June 17 Taxing the Wall Street Casino
Report looks at how speculation taxes might have changed the outcome of recent global financial fiascos

June 01 Statement on the Gaza Flotilla Tragedy: IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis
From Phyllis Bennis, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies (currently in Istanbul).

May 19 Urging Presidents Obama and Calderon to Address Human and Workers' Rights Issues
They should seek to strengthen Mexican judicial and civilian institutions while creating jobs and education opportunities for the millions of those without decent jobs.

April 29 Press Release: Mining for Profits
Transnational corporations are increasingly turning to international arbitration tribunals to resolve disputes over natural resource rights, a new report reveals.

IPS in the Media

• September 10, 2010
  

  McClatchy features our Op-Ed “Reining in Executive Pay”

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• September 9, 2010
  

  The Asheville Citizen-Times features our Op-Ed “Planet CEO vs. Planet Worker”

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• September 8, 2010
  

  The Vernon County Broadcaster features our Op-Ed “Planet CEO vs. Planet Worker”

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• September 6, 2010
  

  The PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer features Sarah Anderson in their article "Mott's Strike Illustrates Labor Union Dilemma"

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  A recent study by the pro-labor Institute for Policy Studies supports such claims -- quote -- "CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis took home 42 percent more than the CEO pay average at S&P 500 firms as a whole."

• September 5, 2010
  

  The Jerusalem Post features John Feffer in their article "The Palin Puzzle"

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  John Feffer, co-director at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C., believes that Palin – who has never visited Israel – has latched onto the Israel issue to gain conservative support. “That is an agenda that’s been handed to her, but she doesn’t have a world view. She’s too parochial. She’s not stupid; she just hasn’t learned her lines. She’s become better but she doesn’t come from an ideological perspective. The enthusiasm some Jews have for her is comical. It’s only because she articulates a perspective they share narrowly. On social issues, Jews remain liberal. And her domestic policy is reprehensible.”

• September 4, 2010
  

  Newsweek features our Report “Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession”

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  "The real nightmare will be when the public sees the numbers, which will illuminate just how egregious the U.S. pay gap has become. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank based in Washington, the average S&P 500 CEO takes home 263 times what his cheapest laborer does. While CEO pay is indeed down from its pre-crisis highs in 2007, it’s still double what it was in the 1990s, and eight times the level in the 1950s."

• September 4, 2010
  

  The Eurasia Review features our Column “The Political Consequences of Stagnation”

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• September 3, 2010
  

  Common Dreams features Hannah Gurman in their article "'Tolerating' the Ground Zero Muslim Center Is Damning It With Faint Praise"

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