Responsible Wealth Members Share their Stories in the Media
Some families avoid conversations about finances – and some wealthy kids struggle with giving back. But three Responsible Wealth members are publicly sharing their efforts to pass down values and meaning to the next generation. (From UFE's E-News.)
March 31, 2008
Investors Favored Over Wage Earners (Op-ed)
OVER THE LAST DECADE, nobody has gotten more love from Washington than
investors. It's time to stop and ask if the love is misplaced.
March 31, 2008
Estate Tax Supporters Convene in DC to Lobby Congress
As efforts to preserve the federal estate tax continue in 2008, estate
tax supporters from across the country will come together for an estate
tax briefing to be held during the Take Back America conference,
followed by a day of Capitol Hill visits to lobby Congressional
representatives and senators from their home districts.
March 11, 2008
Estate Tax Lobby Day
The next phase of the fight to preserve the estate tax needs your voice.
Please join us in Washington DC, March 18-19, to learn and lobby.
February 22, 2008
Challenging our Faith in Wealth
A Tale from the Wealth Gap, by
Cecile Andrews, author of Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community,
Leisure, and Joie de Vivre and The Circle
of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life.
How do we rouse people to get involved in movements for
change? We're facing a growing gap between the rich and the poor, destruction
of the planet through global warming, an endless war... Yet we go on with
business as usual.
January 18, 2008
Are CEOs and Consultants Colluding Over Pay?
UFE's Executive Excess report was cited by a congressional
committee, chaired by Rep. Waxman, looking into executive compensation conflicts of interest.
December 12, 2007
Responsible Wealth Action News – Back Issues
December 2006
(PDF, 524 KB) Ten Years: Looking Back, Looking Forward • Immigration as
Foreign Aid • Myth Busting About Race • Funding Justice Gulf South•
Preserving the Estate Tax
October 31, 2007
The Staggering Cost of US Corporate Leadership
UFE's annual Labor Day report (with the Institute for Policy Studies) finds
that average CEO pay is 364 times the pay of an average US worker.
October 19, 2007
Responsible Wealth Action News – October 2007
Reflection: Inconvenience Yourself | Reining in the Wells Fargo Stagecoach | Tax Fairness Organizing | Capturing Capital Gains | Western Union Pressured | Wal-Mart's Annual Meeting | Opinion: War & Taxes | Estate Tax Heads for Compromise | In Your Own Voice | RW Member Runs for Congress
October 12, 2007
CEOs more valuable than cancer research
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007309020001
August 30, 2007
It's Not Easy Being Ultra-Rich
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/its-not-easy-being-ultra_b_62508.html
August 30, 2007
Cash of the titans: Criticism of pay for fund execs grows
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-08-29-private-equity-pay_N.htm
August 30, 2007
CEOs Make More in One day than You do All Year
They Make More in One day than You do All Year; CEOs Averaged Nearly $11 Million in Pay Last Year
August 29, 2007
Exec. Excess 2007: The Staggering Cost of Corporate Leadership
Our annual Labor Day report (with the Institute for Policy Studies) finds
that average CEO pay is 364 times the pay of an average US worker.
August 29, 2007
Executive Excess 2007
14th Annual Labor Day ‘Executive Excess’ Report: Americans Pay a Staggering
Cost for Corporate Leadership
August 28, 2007
For this club, life begins at 50 (%)
July 29, 2007
Sharing the Burden of War and Taxes
Read the story online.
April 9, 2007
Responsible Wealth 2007 Shareholder Campaign
Shareholder actions are a vital tool in raising awareness about the
need for corporations to take into account the needs of stakeholders
beyond those in board room. This year's resolutions were with Wells Fargo and Western Union.
January 1, 2007
