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Toward Climate Justice with Jacquline Patterson and Basav Sen
This interview was originally posted by The Next System.
How Black Millennials Can Finally Close the Racial Wealth Gap
The wealth gap between black and white Americans is a problem that most people are aware of in the abstract. The depths of the issue, however are more than most…
Trump Begins To Reverberate In Mexico’s Presidential Elections
MEXICO CITY, Mexico April 28, 2018 (IPS) — Statements by U.S. President, Donald Trump, against Mexico, have begun to permeate the presidential election campaign in this Latin American country, forcing the…
A Plan to Save $25 Billion at the Pentagon
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) released a plan last week to cut $25 billion in spending at the Pentagon, largely through reductions in what the lawmaker says…
How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen
In the first two parts of this report, I have estimated that about 2.4 million people have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, while about 1.2 million have…
A Proposed Tax On Vacant Luxury Apartments In Boston
The hot spring real estate market is officially in gear and a new proposal is calling for a closer look and different policies for the luxury end of the market.…
Economic Hardship Reporting Project to fund work by laid-off Denver Post staffers
AFTER 21 YEARS at The Denver Post, Jason Blevins, the paper’s one-man mountain bureau, is now pitching stories as an independent journalist without the assurances of a full-time paycheck. “In the past three…
Fight Back: How to Combat Racial Wealth Inequality
When Saundra Davis decided to change careers in her mid-40s, she opted to earn a master’s degree in financial planning. Her goal, she says, was to understand what wealthy folks knew about…
Fight Back: How to Combat Racial Wealth Inequality
WHEN SAUNDRA DAVIS decided to change careers in her mid-40s, she opted to earn a master’s degree in financial planning. Her goal, she says, was to understand what wealthy folks knew about acquiring,…
Funerals begin for Palestinians killed by Israel army on Land Day
The Palestinian Authority has declared a national day of mourning to honour those killed [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu] Funerals have begun for the 17 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as thousands marched near Gaza’s…
Fifteen Years After Us Invasion Of Iraq
In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction—weapons that…
The damages of the Pax Americana
The United States has been a destructive force in the international community, and it’s unlikely that will change in the near future, according to Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy…
Wall Street bonuses in 2017 were the highest since 2006
The average Wall Street bonus in 2017 was three times what most U.S. households make all year, according to data released by the New York state comptroller on Monday. Wall…
Funerals begin for Palestinians killed by Israel army on Land Day
Funerals have begun for the 17 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as thousands marched near Gaza’s border with Israel to mark the 42nd anniversary of Land Day. Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip held the funeral for…
Herdsmen-Farmers’ Clashes Today: Ecology, Class and Categorical Politics in Contemporary Nigeria
Overtime, and in different parts of the world, various methods have been adopted to address the needs of pastoralists. These include free-range grazing, enclosure livestock husbandry, and various mixtures of…
Comptroller: Wall Street Average Bonus Topped $184K in 2017
A second consecutive year of soaring profits on Wall Street pushed the average bonus paid to securities industry employees in New York City to more than $184,000 in 2017, New…
The Ridiculous Size of the ‘Average” Wall Street Bonus in 2017? Three Times What Most US Households Made All Year
Wall Street bonuses are climbing toward record highs again, according to government data released Monday showing that in 2017, the average bonus payout reached US$184,220. That is a 17 percent…
Refunding Justice: What to Do With Your Tax Refund
As you likely know, this is a particular notable year for taxes, as it comes on the heels of the new Tax Reform bill passed mid-December 2017. As Sarah Anderson…
ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS HOW THE FEDS ARE SPENDING YOUR TAX DOLLARS
Whether you owe the I-R-S or it owes you, Tax Day is an annual reminder of how much money Americans give the federal government each year. A new report shows…
Refunding Justice: What to Do With Your Tax Refund
As you likely know, this is a particularly notable year for taxes, as it comes on the heels of the new Tax Reform bill passed mid-December 2017. As Sarah Anderson…
How The Ford Foundation Is Investing In Black Prosperity And, Ironically, Jared Kushner
There’s an entire economic sector that the typical American doesn’t pay much attention to, but it’s a part of our society that funds much of the activism and community service…
‘Astronomical’ Cost of War: Average US Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the uncomfortable fact that an “astronomical amount” of the money sent…
Tax Day: What Are the Feds Doing with Your Money?
Whether you owe the IRS or it owes you, Tax Day is an annual reminder of how much money Americans give the federal government each year. A new report shows exactly where…
Letter: GOP needs new leadership
There has been a fair amount of press in the Gloucester Daily Times recently about U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl, the Republican state representative from the South Shore who’s trying…
Who Is Continuing Martin Luther King’s Fight Against Poverty?
It was a labor dispute that took Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis 50 years ago. Sanitation workers were striking, and King’s support was part of the Poor People’s Campaign,…
Global Ethics Forum Preview: Tackling Inequality in the United States, with Chuck Collins
Next time on Global Ethics Forum, Institute for Policy Studies’ Chuck Collins discusses extreme inequality in America. In this excerpt, Collins tells journalist Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson what the one percent needs…
My Turn: Reversing inequality – Why it matters on Main Street
Today, a reflection on the work and legacy of the late Winnie Madikezela-Mandela, a fierce advocate for social justice who was considered by many South Africans to be the mother…
Netflix Says It’s Up To Viewers To Decide Whether A New Show Glorifies A Brutal Drug War Or Not
Drug policy groups and rights advocates are calling on Netflix to cancel a controversial new show, Amo, that they say normalizes Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. Since 2016,…
The Institute for Policy Studies Organizes Community Outreach & Education on the Most Salient Issues of the Day
The Short Version: The Institute for Policy Studies is a progressive think tank that provides an organizational structure for activists and academics working on national and international policy initiatives. This pioneering advocacy…
