The Travel cites IPS research on fare evasion penalties in a viral piece about an Amtrak passenger who rode the Acela 100 miles without a ticket, sparking debate over whether U.S. transit systems need harsher consequences for fare dodgers.
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The Travel cites IPS research in a piece on growing passenger frustration over fare evasion on Amtrak, noting that in most U.S. cities, public transit riders can be charged with a misdemeanor for failure to pay the full fare — a punishment on par with property theft, driving under the influence, or assault.
The Hill quotes Hanna Homestead, research analyst for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, in a report on how Trump’s faltering Iran peace deal is threatening to derail Congress’s defense spending agenda. “Congress should not greenlight this war by continuing to fund it,” Homestead says. “They should listen to the American people, who want taxpayer dollars to be supporting families at home and not bombing them abroad.”
Fortune cites a 2025 IPS report on the Giving Pledge in a profile of billionaire philanthropists John and Laura Arnold, noting they are the only Giving Pledge signers technically in compliance with the promise to give away at least half of one’s wealth — a finding drawn directly from IPS’s research.
Mongabay covers a new IPS report finding that solar projects in southern Honduras have destroyed old-growth trees, contaminated waterways, and raised electricity prices for nearby communities — while doing little to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, which still account for over 40% of national electricity generation. “The impact so far is eerily similar to the prevailing development model in Honduras, which concentrates benefits on the rich and externalizes impacts on the poor,” the report states.
WVUA23 covers a new joint report from IPS and Alabama Arise finding that a $25 million state investment in public transit could unlock $100 million in federal funding, create 2,561 jobs, and generate $207 million in new GDP — while helping close Alabama’s growing workforce shortage.
Khury Petersen-Smith, co-director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, is quoted in Salon on the long-term trajectory of the US war with Iran, warning that a low-boil, open-ended conflict is the default mode of American military operations. “The U.S. launches a set of military operations that begin with these spectacular large-scale operations,” Petersen-Smith explains, “and then, like in both Afghanistan and Iraq, they declare early victories of certain sorts, but then continue to involve themselves as these ongoing conflicts become much more complicated and the war just becomes really vague.”
CBS News cites IPS data finding that the nation’s 905 billionaires are now worth a combined $7.8 trillion — an increase of more than 25% in a single year — in a report on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to ban the “buy, borrow, die” tax strategy used by the ultra-wealthy.
Kate Hess Pace, executive director of Hoosier Action and IPS Wallace Rural Organizing Fellow, speaks with The New Republic about the growing grassroots backlash against data centers in rural communities. She highlights how public entities are pushing these unpopular projects through without much public review or community input.
“It did kind of open people’s eyes a little bit to local decision-makers, like, who decided this?”
Sanho Tree tells The Intercept this would not be the first time the administration had made claims about drug trafficking to justify military operations to curb the flow of drugs in the U.S.
“They’ve applied a war paradigm to an economic problem,” explains Sanho, warning that actions like removing the top command structure of a cartel could in fact continue to exacerbate the exact problems the military are trying to solve.
Washington State has enacted a historic “millionaire tax” — and more states could soon follow suit.
In These Times takes an in-depth look at how levying higher taxes on the state’s highest-income earners would work, and how the revenue from such a measure could help fund key programs and services that help local communities survive and thrive. The article highlights key findings from an older report by IPS and the State Revenue Alliance that examined the potential impact of such a measure. Two years into passing a similar tax the rich initiative, the report found that Massachusetts ended up having more millionaires, not less, and its cumulative wealth grew by $580 billion, according to the report.
“When corporations can get away with shifting their employees’ basic living costs onto taxpayers, this is a form of corporate welfare,” the report said. “It means taxpayers are subsidizing business models based on poverty wages.”
“This is highly unpredictable and so we won’t know the cost of it until it’s over,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute of Policy Studies, who said the conflict is “not necessary” and is taking away from other policies that could “make life more affordable for Americans."
"Our government should always put the best interests and well-being of children first in any policies, decisions, actions, or activities in which kids are impacted."
An in-depth article in Fast Company highlights IPS’s new report, which analyzes the CEO-worker pay gap at the 20 largest low-wage corporations, and spotlights how many of the workers they…
Más de 50 organizaciones nacionales e internacionales alertaron que la intención del gobierno de volver al CIADI podría facilitar la expansión de proyectos extractivos, la entrega de territorios a las ZEDE y otros megaproyectos, y subordinar decisiones estatales a tribunales internacionales.
