We're missing our summer Henry A. Wallace fellows so much already! Best of luck to you all on your next semester, opportunity, and life adventures. ❤️ IPS cannot wait to see how you take the lessons on public scholarship into the progressive movement 💫 #NextLeaders #publicscholar #fellowshipprogram
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Since 1963, the Institute for Policy Studies has challenged inequality, corporate power, polluters, and militarism.
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IPS is a community of public scholars and organizers linking peace, justice, and the environment in the U.S. and globally. We work with social movements to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power.
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The 2024 Executive Excess report from the Institute for Policy Studies has some eye opening findings for example: - The average CEO-worker pay ratio at Low-Wage 100 firms narrowed from 603 to 1 in 2022 to 538 to 1 in 2023 - The 20 largest U.S. employers in the Low-Wage 100 have spent — over the last five years — nine times as much on stock buybacks as on employee retirement plan contributions. - From 2019 through 2023, the Low-Wage 100 spent $522 billion — over half a trillion dollars — on stock buybacks. - From 2019 through 2023, nearly half of Low-Wage 100 companies — 47 in all — plowed more corporate cash into buying back their own shares of stock than investing in capital improvements. #findinggreatexecutives #payversusperformance #moneyballforceos #ceosquantified Get the full report from below: https://lnkd.in/emd3xRhH
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Happy #LaborDay! It's past time to fix the CEO-worker pay gap. Luckily, there are several common-sense measures we could easily enact to rein in runaway #CEOpay. "Executive Excess 2024," the Institute for Policy Studies' latest analysis, reveals staggering disparities at the 100 S&P 500 corporations with the lowest median worker pay, a group we’ve dubbed the "Low-Wage 100." The CEOs of those companies, we found, now make an average of 538 times more than their median employees. In other words, it would take a typical worker at these companies more than half a millennium to make what their boss takes home in a single year. Meanwhile, from 2019 to 2023, those same companies blew half a trillion dollars buying back their own stock to artificially inflate their share price — and with it, CEO pay. Every cent of these funds could have boosted worker wages or gone into capital improvements instead. Read more about the ridiculous pay gap, and how we fix it: https://lnkd.in/eJbwmHHz
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Truman Scholar (NM 23) I Henry Wallace Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies I M.A. American History
I'm excited to share that my first op-ed was published last week! Given my interest in labor history, I felt compelled to chime in on the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the workforce. In this piece, Omar Ocampo and I argue that the real issue with AI isn't the future threat of job displacement, but rather how AI is already being weaponized to intensify workplace surveillance. The dominant narrative surrounding AI is often little more than propaganda, obscuring the fact that these technologies are being integrated squarely within the existing social relations of capitalism. Far from transforming the nature of work, AI is being deployed to strengthen managerial control over workers. While AI has the potential to make life easier for workers, it can only do so if its integration is brought under the control of those who actually do the work. Thankfully, organized labor recognizes this challenge and is fighting to ensure that new technologies will be implemented not to the detriment of workers, but for their benefit. How do you see AI impacting your work environment? I invite you to join the conversation. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gnvgYqhk
AI Won’t Replace You — But It Will Spy on You
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We’re #hiring a remote, part-time Fossil Fuel Phaseout Campaign Coordinator🛢 Know anyone who might be interested? 🌎 #climatejustice #environment #cleanenergy
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Absolutely. Helen Flannery and Chuck Collins at the Institute for Policy Studies have been doing critical investigations on this for a long time, along with academics like Ray Madoff and more than I can link here. It's a growing issue -- and some of the largest foundations in the country are using this loophole. Below is a link to one of my recent pieces as it covers this a lot better than I can in a post: https://lnkd.in/djPAbwqW
Did you know that the payout requirement for all private foundations is, effectively, $0? You thought it was a minimum of 5%, right? I did too, for many years. But there is a massive loophole that negates this requirement, that allows any foundation to avoid giving a single, solitary dollar to an operating charity, ever. This loophole allows a private foundation to meet its 5% minimum distribution requirement by giving the entire amount to a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) that it controls. And DAFs, in turn, have no legal distribution requirement. It is, therefore, only at the discretion of the foundation's board that it engages it any kind of philanthropic activity at all. Any kind of grantmaking. Any use of the corpus for positive social impact, rather than investing it purely for its own perpetual growth. I don't point this out to dump on foundations - or on DAFs. I'm not saying that there are more than maybe a handful that actually do this. (It would be interesting to see actual numbers since the IRS has been collecting this data for years on the 990-PF tax return for private foundations) What I am saying is that in the last decade we have discovered that many things we thought were a matter of legal or contractual requirement turned out to be more like a suggestion, or a norm, or a handshake agreement between people of good faith. We didn't notice before because everyone had been following the norms in good faith. Until some people didn't. And we saw that there are no consequences for people who choose to break that faith. This feels wrong to me. Dollars legally designated for charitable purposes, with attendant tax benefits, should be required to be actually distributed to operating charities within a reasonable timeframe. I cannot come up with a public benefit associated with stockpiling them. It's time to close these loopholes. #philanthropy #socialimpact #privatefoundations #charity
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New polling in the US shows “voracious appetite” for reforming charity laws around donor-advised funds, across the political spectrum. We spoke with Bella DeVaan of the Institute for Policy Studies about the ongoing donor “revolt” for DAF reform, as part of our series 🔓Unlocking Abundance 🔓with Magic Cabinet. Learn more about this series and our recent event in Seattle here: bit.ly/3YfVzFW
Behind the Donor Revolt for Charity Reform
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💗 How important is it to be a leader with empathy as our core attribute? What is the importance of self-exploration in becoming such a leader? Is it possible to build high-performing, long-lasting organizations that can stand the test of time while remaining true to our innermost humanness? To explore such questions, I recently sat down with a very special guest on "The Business Philosopher Within You" podcast. Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. Some topics we explored: - Embracing our humaneness for enhanced productivity and performance - Creative writing as a pathway to self-discovery and growth - Balancing creativity and individuality with writing formulas and templates - Art's role in understanding diverse perspectives and experiences - Exploring our individual human experience to connect with our shared humanity - Techniques for self-discovery through writing - The benefits of self-exploration through writing for understanding oneself and others - Deepening Empathy and understanding through creative writing - Developing self-awareness through writing to enhance leadership qualities - Prioritizing self-exploration and embracing humanness as leaders - Creating connected and productive work environments through creative exploration - Inspiring teams to bring their whole selves to work - Cultivating authenticity and vulnerability in the workplace - Understanding one's own story and its impact on understanding others' stories Tune in to discover how self-exploration through writing can help you become a more empathetic and effective leader. Watch 🎬, listen to 🎙️ or deep-dive 📝 this episode of the Business Philosopher Within You podcast. Links in the Comments section. #EmpathyInLeadership #SelfDiscovery #HumanConnection
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The $39 billion in the CHIPS Act should reward companies that work responsibly, not those that will blow it on buybacks. Researchers from Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Financial Reform found ways to ensure that. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/gbh7TScC
REPORT: Maximizing the Benefits of the CHIPS Program
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