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Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich

The acclaimed author and activist had a 40-year history with the Institute for Policy Studies, first as a staff member and later as a project leader and board member.

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A Voice at the United Nations the World Needs to Hear

Sam Pizzigati | September 22, 2022
The UN’s secretary-general is speaking truth – about inequality — to our world’s leaders.
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Can't Beat the Heat? Blame Inequality

Sam Pizzigati | September 16, 2022
Why poor neighborhoods are often hotter than rich neighborhoods — and what to do about it.
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Isn’t It Time to Challenge the Growth Paradigm?

John Feffer | September 16, 2022
The planet is running out of resources, and humanity is living beyond its means.
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The First Billionaire To Become UK’s King

Sam Pizzigati | September 16, 2022
We expected Charles to get the crown. We didn’t expect him to make a billion-dollar fortune first.
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Making Earth the Shareholder

Chuck Collins | September 15, 2022
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, a reluctant billionaire, puts company in trust devoted to address ecological crisis.
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Not Playing Around: Video Game Testers Aim to Unionize

| September 14, 2022
The unionization trend in the video game industry continues with workers at an Activision Blizzard King studio.
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IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond

Jennifer Moore | September 13, 2022
With our allies, we've prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.
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Learning from Gorbachev’s Failures

John Feffer | September 9, 2022
As we address the climate emergency, what lessons can we extract from Gorbachev's efforts to transform the Soviet Union?
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Reports and Resources

Report: Gilded Giving 2022

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery | July 19, 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.
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The Other Side of the Storm

Kimberly Freeman Brown, Marc Bayard | June 21, 2022
What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of Covid-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure?

Bay State Billionaires

Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo | June 9, 2022
Massachusetts billionaires' wealth surges 46 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive Excess 2022

Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, Brian Wakamo | June 7, 2022
The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs.
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How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality

Basav Sen | January 27, 2022
Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.
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Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year

Chuck Collins | January 18, 2022
A new joint report from Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires details what can be funded by simply taxing the rich.
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Upcoming Events

  • What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?

    September 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at Online Zoom Event

    Co-sponsored by the EcoSocial Pact of the South and the Global Just Transition project of the Institute for Policy Studies, with Spanish/English interpretation

  • The Ballot and Community Control Over Police

    September 29 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm at Online Zoom Event

    Through multimedia presentation, group dialogue, and interactive exercises led by IPS's Netfa Freeman, participants will learn what it will take to win community control over the police in a given locale and how to start a campaign to achieve it.

  • SAVE THE DATE: 46th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

    October 13 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm at Friends Meeting of Washington, DC

    IPS returns to in-person an Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Gala, and invites you to honor our fallen heroes Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt and the heroes of today who provide hope during challenging times.

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