Global Economy

The program collaborates with a broader IPS team to produce Inequality.org and a related weekly newsletter that highlights the latest data and the sharpest strategies to reverse extreme inequality in the United States and around the world. The program is also a leading resource on one key driver of inequality — runaway CEO pay. For more than two decades, our annual report series “Executive Excess” has drawn extensive media coverage to the issue of CEO pay and practical solutions. A newer report series, “A Tale of Two Retirements,” is the first to track the staggering gap in retirement benefits between wealthy CEOs and ordinary Americans.

Featured Resource

• Toolkit: State and City Taxes on Extreme CEO-worker Pay Gaps

Recent Posts Related to CEO Pay

• Clobbering a Shill for Overpaid CEOs
• CEO Pay Tax Break in GOP Health Bill
• Return of the Railroad Robber Baron
• A State Treasurer Defends CEO Pay Law
• Standing Up for ‘Bullied’ CEOs
• 5 Ways to End CEO Pay Subsidies
• How the Racial Wealth Gap is Spelled Out Through Retirement Savings
• The failure of Bill Clinton’s CEO pay reform – Politico
• This City Just Came Up With a Novel Way to Fight Inequality: Taxing Corporations With Extreme Pay Gaps

The program works with grassroots activists around the world to advance alternative international trade and investment policies that elevate environmental, human, and labor rights above narrow corporate interests. In recent years program staff have played a lead role in supporting a successful campaign in El Salvador to defend against global mining corporations’ attempts to steamroll local resistance to harmful extractives projects.

Featured Article

• How An International Grassroots Campaign Beat Metal Mining Corporations

Recent Posts Related to Trade, Investment, and Mining

• El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold
• Trump’s Bad Deal on Trade
• El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight

The Black Worker Initiative aims to help expand opportunities for black worker organizing and thereby greatly contribute to the revitalization of the U.S. labor movement as a whole. This program is deeply committed to helping achieve both the historic and contemporary aims of the labor and civil rights movements.

Featured Report

• “And Still I Rise”

Recent Posts Related to Black Worker Initiative

• Solidarity for Black Workers at Nissan
• How the Racial Wealth Gap is Spelled Out Through Retirement Savings

IPS staff play lead roles in coalitions working to restore the financial sector to its proper purpose of serving the real economy. We track the reckless Wall Street bonus culture, for example through our annual “Off the Deep End” report on the size of the financial industry bonus pool versus the cost of paying restaurant servers and domestic workers a living wage. We also advance innovative reforms such as a small tax on Wall Street speculation to curb short-term trading and generate massive revenue for urgent public needs, such as fixing our crumbling national infrastructure.

Featured Report

• Republican Tax Plan Giveaways to Wall Street (co-published with Americans for Tax Fairness and the Take On Wall Street campaign

Recent Posts Related to Global Finance

• 4 Wall Street Bonus Charts That May Make You Scream
• To Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street
• States Take on the Hedge Fund Chiefs
• OneWest: The Art of the Runaround
• Mnuchin’s CEO Pay Straw Man
• Democratic Platform Channels Bernie Sanders on Wall Street …
• Can We Forgo Wells Fargo?

IPS staff play lead roles in coalitions working to restore the financial sector to its proper purpose of serving the real economy. We track the reckless Wall Street bonus culture, for example through our annual “Off the Deep End” report on the size of the financial industry bonus pool versus the cost of paying restaurant servers and domestic workers a living wage. We also advance innovative reforms such as a small tax on Wall Street speculation to curb short-term trading and generate massive revenue for urgent public needs, such as fixing our crumbling national infrastructure.

Featured Report

• Report: The Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers in the United States

Recent Posts Related to Low-Wage Workers

• Labor Trafficking Survivor Speaks Out
• Laboring for Trump’s Labor Pick
• The Hypocrisy of Puzder’s Perks
• Narrowing the Paid Leave Divide
• Key Ballot-Box Victories in Maine
• Demanding Just Hours for Workers

Inequality.org and a related weekly newsletter are key resources for the public at large, journalists, teachers, students, academics, activists, and others seeking information and analysis on wealth and income inequality. Here, we collect the latest developments on inequality and keep readers abreast of relevant information concerning the widening wealth gap. We highlight stories from activists on the front lines of the fight against extreme inequality and share information that can be used for ongoing campaigns.