Dear Friend,

Did you know today is Fat Cat Day? It sounds like recognition for fluffy feline friends, but the fat cats we’re calling out are CEOs. The wage gap between CEOs and workers is so obscene that CEO salary for the first few days of the new year is equal to the annual salary of the average worker – so we observe Fat Cat Day the first week of January!

Here in the U.S. most of us watched our savings dwindle and debt increase in 2023. Rising interest rates, stagnant wages and understaffed workplaces are the end of year “bonuses” for working people. How did the billionaires fare as 2023 came to close and 2024 kicks off?

The over 700 billionaires in the US, the most of any country, gained even more obscene wealth in 2023. While the 1% continued to maintain and some even grow their vast fortunes, these same CEOs brazenly tried to shut down worker organizing and limit the right to free speech in the workplace. The good news is that workers and communities are still organizing and pushing back against the intimidation and worker abuse by corporations and their highly paid CEO’s; Bezos and Musk to name a few.

Not only are obscene CEO salaries a slap in the face of all workers but some of those same dollars end up as campaign contributions to the two parties of war and Wall Street or lining the pockets of lobbyists who advocate for the likes of pharmaceutical companies, the fossil fuel industry and multinational companies like Walmart that have some of the lowest wage workers in the country.

The Green Party and its candidates accept no corporate donations. We rely on contributions from you to fund grassroots campaigns and build the party state by state and city by city. Will you make a donation of just $15.00 or whatever you can afford today to support the Green Party and our candidates this year?

Donate today and help fuel our people powered movement for peace and planet. Together we can take the fight for wage fairness and workers' rights to the CEOs and politicians who have left working people like us behind.

In solidarity,

Green Party of the United States

https://www.gp.org/

P.S. You'd probably be unsurprised to know that many of the top paid CEOs in the US helm some of the largest print, broadcast, streaming, and social media platforms in the world. Instead of sending another $15 a month to one of their companies, you can "subscribe" to support the Green Party of the United States. If you haven’t already, consider joining the ranks of our Monthly Sustainers.