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IPS’s Criminalization of Race and Poverty Program joins the Coalition on Human Needs and over 250 other organizations in a joint letter urging the House to prioritize children’s safety in the upcoming FY26 DHS appropriations vote.

“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,” the letter urges.

Read the full letter and list of signatories.

From the article: “Millions of low-wage workers for some of America’s largest retailers are relying on public assistance to survive.  

A report by the Institute for Policy Studies examined 20 S&P 500 companies with the lowest median wages that have primarily U.S.-based workforces. According to the group, 6.7 million workers earn wages low enough to qualify for government assistance programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”

Read the full article in Black Enterprise.

In a powerful op-ed in Forbes on the mounting costs of the war with Iran, expert William Hartung cites the National Priorities Project at IPS’s initial point-in-time estimate of the partial cost of key Iran war military operations.

Read the full article.

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 employ are paid so little that they are forced to rely on public benefits. The report examines how the Low-Wage 20 are contributing to the affordability crisis.

“I think this is a big part of the affordability debate that isn’t getting enough attention. Most of the attention is on rising costs for things like housing and groceries, and all that is a major concern,” report author Sarah Anderson explains. “But if we didn’t have this poverty wage business model and wage suppression related to the anti-union tactics of these companies, we wouldn’t have an affordability crisis right now because wages would be significantly higher—and people wouldn’t be worrying about putting food on the table or a roof over their head.”

Read the full article.

An in-depth article in The Guardian highlights key findings from a new report published on March 4 by IPS, which focuses on the 20 largest low-wage corporations, analyzing the S&P 500 corporations that have primarily US-based workforces and report the lowest median wages of the group.

As the article highlights, the report finds that many workers at some of these largest US corporations have no choice but to rely on healthcare and food assistance because of low wages, even as CEO compensation continues to grow.

“When corporations can get away with shifting their employees’ basic living costs onto taxpayers, this is a form of corporate welfare,” report author Sarah Anderson notes. “With the federal government slashing spending on anti-poverty programs, it’s even more important that major corporations in the world’s richest country pay their employees a living wage.”

Read the full article.

CNBC quotes Chuck Collins about how Donor Advised Funds, or DAFs, are wielding ever growing influence over how charitable giving gets distributed.

As Chuck points out, sponsors typically collect fees for managing DAF assets, creating an inherent financial incentive to disburse fewer assets. Meanwhile, the community foundations that first embraced the DAF model are now competing with larger commercially-affiliated sponsors.

Read the full article.

In an op-ed in The Hill supporting a measure to raise taxes on California’s wealthiest residents, Maureen Kennedy of Patriotic Millionaires cites research from IPS, which found that millionaires didn’t flee en masse from Washington State or Massachusetts after those states passed similar tax hikes on the rich in 2022.

Read the full op-ed.

In Spanish, Criterio highlights a joint statement from IPS and other Honduran and international organizations, which warns that Honduras’s choice to rejoin the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) threatens national sovereignty, collective rights, and Honduras’s ability to make decisions in favor of the public interest.

Read the full article in Spanish.

Read the full statement in English here.


Kate Hess Pace shares her observations from organizing in rural communities in southern Indiana in her work as Executive Director of Hoosier Action.


Read the full article in The New Yorker.

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