CEOs Now Make 300 Times More Than Their Workers. This City Is Putting a Stop to That [YesMagazine.org]

With national policy likely to compound the income and wealth gap in the coming years, states and localities are fighting back.

Across the country, local jurisdictions aren’t waiting for federal action or corporate governance reforms to close the wage gap. In December, for example, the city of Portland, Oregon, passed an ordinance to raise the business tax on companies with CEOs who earn more than 100 times the median pay of their workers. Portland officials said the ordinance is the first of its kind in the country. And now, more cities and states are poised to follow suit. 

[For more of this story, written by Chuck Collins, go to http://www.yesmagazine.org/new...top-to-that-20170407]