Monday, February 22, 2016

Wage gap: One Hillary Clinton speech more than average CEO salary

Wage gap: One Hillary Clinton speech more than average CEO salary: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's charge that corporate CEOs earn 300 times more than their workers isn't just wrong. It hides another very real wage gap: She earns more in just one speech than the average American CEO in a year.
Mark J. Perry, a University of Michigan professor and author of the American Enterprise Institute's popular Carpe Diem blog, did the fact-checking of Clinton's numbers and came up with that result.