A “gaping,” growing gap between CEO and worker pay has partly fueled protests for higher living wages — a way to shrink income inequality.

What the Securities and Exchange Commission has just done may stoke that fire even more...

...The SEC’s new rule comes from the five-year-old Dodd-Frank law regulating the financial services industry. Sen. Bob Menendez sponsored it.

“This creates, if nothing else, transparency and the ability for investors and those who represent workers to understand ‘Is there the right balance in the company that I’m investing in?” Menendez said.

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