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What are shareholders, regulators, and institutional investors across America—and here in Maryland—doing to make corporate executive pay practices more transparent and accountable?

Lawrence Lanahan
March 22, 2013

If you own any stock, even a few shares, this is the time of year you can make your voice heard in the corner offices of the world’s largest public corporations.

If you look at average CEO pay among firms listed in the S&P 500, it nearly tripled between 1992 and 2007, the year the economy started to tank.

March 1, 2013

The unpaid internship is widely perceived as a necessary—if not sufficient—prerequisite to getting a good-paying white-collar job. The New York Times reported that, in 1992, 17 percent of graduating college students had taken an internship, and 50 percent had in 2008. More recent figures put it even higher.

February 15, 2013

Lawrence Lanahan

February 1, 2013

Lawrence Lanahan

When controversy erupts over big developments in Baltimore, developers often counter with this tantalizing promise: "We've got jobs!"

Full interview with Bailey Pope, Carl Stokes, and Todd Yeary

An update on the Read's Drug Store site

Who's going to train workers for new development jobs?

Today on The Lines Between Us, some people in Baltimore's nonprofit community tell us why they're moving the conversation about employment opportunities beyond "diversity" into "inclusion," and we'll learn what the difference is.

Then, the Celtic music group, Helicon, joins us for a preview of their 27th annual winter solstice concert.

Our series "The Lines Between Us" has turned its focus from fair housing to economic opportunity, with a look last week at the various ways Baltimore’s minority entrepreneurs found support for their ventures when banks were denying them commercial credit.

The biggest challenge,

Do conversations about race become confrontational?

Harry Johnson on developing a new generation of civic leaders

Danista Hunte on developing young leaders for defunct neighborhood ass'ns

The full, unedited interview.

After a couple months looking at the relationship between housing, wealth, and inequality, "The Lines Between Us" is turning its attention to equality of economic opportunity.