The 1%: 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.

Source: Wage gap: One Hillary Clinton speech more than average CEO salary | Washington Examiner

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