Between 1978 and 2011 the annual salary of CEOs have risen over 700% while the average American worker's annual salary have only risen 5.7% according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/publication/ib331-ceo-pay-top-1-percent/). This difference is causing lower and middle class families to suffer and harming our economy, while CEOs continue to inflate their own fortunes. Our government needs to step in and help protect American workers.
Either raise minimum wage at the same rate as Executives and CEO's salary increases or find a way to closely tie an American employee's increase in wages to the executives for whom they work for.
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