Just The Facts

Who Profits from Corporate Power? Maybe what's good for corporations isn't good for us all. Check out the numbers.

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by Catherine Bailey, Doug Pibel

posted Aug 28, 2007

How Long Does It Take To Make
$10 000?

The Disparity Between CEO and Worker Pay is Growing

Who Pockets the Profits?

We all benefit when corporations make big profts, right? Wrong.

Money Spent Getting Our Attention

At the beginning of the 20th century, corporations spent $450 million on advertising. From 1975 to 2005, spending increased more than 1,000 percent.

Sources: Advertising Age Special Issue: The Advertising Century; The 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States; Currents and Undercurrents: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth, 1989–2004 (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System); 2007 Executive PayWatch (America's Union Movement)

Bailey, C., Pibel, D. (2007, August 28). Just The Facts. Retrieved February 12, 2012, from YES! Magazine Web site: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/stand-up-to-corporate-power/just-the-facts. All Rights Reserved

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