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NC GOP to Workers Walking Picket Line, "Let them eat cake."
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NC GOP to Workers Walking Picket Line, "Let them eat cake."

About three dozen North Carolinians who are fed up with calls by Republican leaders for everyone else to sacrifice so they and their corporate campaign backers can continue to sacrifice nothing walked a picket line outside the headquarters of the North Carolina Republican Party in Raleigh, today.

NC GOP to Workers Walking Picket Line, "Let them eat cake."

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Speak NC: Smart Start

Smart Start is North Carolina’s nationally-recognized early childhood system that served 124,000 children in child care last year alone, along with thousands more young children who are not in child care by providing services such as parent training and health screenings.

Speak NC: Smart Start

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Executive PayWatch 2011

The PayWatch 2011 report is out (www.paywatch.org), and 2010 was a banner year for executive compensation at corporations in the United States. One of the featured case studies is that of Reynolds American President and CEO, Susan Ivey, who made over $23.8 million in 2010. Ivey's 8-figure payout does not include millions of dollars more she walked away with after taking early retirement in February 2011 at age 52.

Executive PayWatch 2011