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April 24, 2019

Disney Heiress Calls on Her Family's Company to Fight Inequality
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Walt Disney Company heiress Abigail Disney is speaking out against wage
inequality, calling Disney CEO Bob Iger's salary "insane." In an op-ed
for The Washington Post published Tuesday titled "It's time to call out
Disney-and anyone else rich off their workers' backs," Abigail Disney
wrote, "Iger took home more than $65 million in 2018. That's 1,424 times
the median pay of a Disney worker. … At the pay levels we are talking
about, an executive giving up half his bonus has zero effect on his
quality of life. For the people at the bottom, it could mean a ticket
out of poverty or debt. It could offer access to decent health care or
an education for a child."


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