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1 CEO Makes 354 Times the Average Worker

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Did you know just one CEO makes 354 times as much as the average rank-and-file worker?

As multinational corporations park their profits overseas and refuse to pay their fair share of taxes, the middle class is shrinking. More and more working people are living hand-to-mouth. The richest 1 percent has more than one-third of the country's wealth while 60 percent of Americans barely have any.

Learn more about this staggering inequality in the United States at www.paywatch.org.

Launched on Tax Day, PayWatch 2013 is the most comprehensive searchable online database tracking the excessive pay of CEOs of the nation's largest companies. On the website, you can compare your pay to the pay of top executives. And this year's PayWatch will look at CEOs of the shadowy "Fix the Debt" and Business Roundtable groups, which are pushing for more tax cuts for corporations and the super wealthy, while calling for benefit cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs that working families depend on.