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How to Get Rid of the Super-Rich

By leveraging the power of the public purse against corporations that pay their top execs outrageously more than their workers, we could help jump-start a democratic “New Economy.”

Big Pay Gaps Are Bad for Business

Would you do your best work for a CEO who pulls in 5,000 times your own salary?

Our Flag Doesn’t Have to Stand for Violence

Veterans often wrestle with the things they’ve done in war. When will ordinary Americans do the same?

Incarceration and Deportation Rip Mothers From Their Families

We need to address the criminalization of race and poverty. To do so, we need to correct our swaying moral compass.

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How to Get Rid of the Super-Rich

Sam Pizzigati | May 24, 2018

By leveraging the power of the public purse against corporations that pay their top execs outrageously more than their workers, we could help jump-start a democratic “New Economy.”

The Current Political System is Ripe for Disruption

John Feffer | May 24, 2018

From Washington to Rome, so-called "populist" politicians are hacking away at a genuinely broken status quo. But their alternatives are either uninspired or terrifying.

Hundreds of Poor People's Campaign Activists Got Themselves Arrested for Racial Justice

Saurav Sarkar | May 24, 2018

While some white people were calling the cops on people of color, others joined them — and members of every other community — in a huge sweep of actions in state capitals.

Our Flag Doesn't Have to Stand for Violence

Saurav Sarkar | May 24, 2018

Veterans often wrestle with the things they've done in war. When will ordinary Americans do the same?

While the World's Billionaire's Evade Taxes and Swing Clubs, the Poor Pick Up the Slack

Sam Pizzigati | May 24, 2018

From Hong Kong to Los Angeles, people of ordinary means are squeezing into expensive housing and subsidizing country clubs for the golfing super rich.

Incarceration and Deportation Rip Mothers From Their Families

Karen Dolan | May 24, 2018

We need to address the criminalization of race and poverty. To do so, we need to correct our swaying moral compass.

Big Pay Gaps Are Bad for Business

Sarah Anderson | May 24, 2018

Would you do your best work for a CEO who pulls in 5,000 times your own salary?

Teen Voices in the Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage in Massachusetts

Jessicah Pierre | May 24, 2018

I Have A Future is a local organization mobilizing youth organizers in Massachusetts to advocate for themselves in the fight to raise the state's minimum wage.

Report: Restoring Opportunity in California

Chuck Collins, Jessicah Pierre, Josh Hoxie | May 8, 2018

Taxing Wealth to Fund College for All in California

Report: CEO-Worker Pay Ratios in the Banking Industry

Bartlett Naylor, Sarah Anderson | April 26, 2018

A decade after the crash, excessive pay is still a problem at the mega-banks and the 2nd-tier firms that stand to benefit from the current deregulation push.

Report: The Souls of Poor Folk

| April 10, 2018

Report: How Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2017

Lindsay Koshgarian | March 28, 2018

Our analysis found that the average taxpayer put in 29 working days in 2017 to pay Pentagon contractors.

Report: The Poor People's Campaign, 50 Years Later

IPS Staff | December 4, 2017

Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People's Campaign Challenged System Racism, Poverty, Militarism, and our National Morality.

Report: High Flyers 2017

Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie | November 29, 2017

How the private jet lobby shifts costs to the rest of us, threatens our security, and fuels a warming planet.

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Economic and Racial Justice
Climate Justice
Peace and Foreign Policy
Community Engagement
Leadership Programs

Upcoming Events

Brown Bag: Beautiful Rising – Creative Resistance from the Global South
May 31 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at Institute for Policy Studies
Come to a conversation and Meet and Greet about the project and how the toolkit can help us make nonviolent revolution irresistible.
Book Event: Hip Hop in Africa
June 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Come out for this talk and book signing with Msia Clark about the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems.

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