Progressives pressure Hillary Clinton on Wall Street bonuses


  • World
  • Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight groups representing the U.S. Democratic Party's progressive wing planned to call on Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to disavow the controversial practice of Wall Street firms paying bonuses to executives who leave for government jobs.

The groups is also asking in a letter that Clinton, the favourite to win the party's nomination for the 2016 presidential election, endorse a proposed federal law that would ban "golden parachutes", as the bonuses are sometimes known.

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