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From a Militarized to a Decarbonized Economy: A Case for Conversion

In a new analysis for Costs of War, IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton lays out a case for a transition from a militarized to a decarbonized economy.

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Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”

Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo

An annual wealth tax on the world’s richest could raise $1.7 trillion globally.

REPORT: New Mexico at a Crossroads: False Solutions or a Just Transition?

Basav Sen, Taneya Garcia, Ennedith Lopez, Alyssa Garza

How community-led energy solutions can benefit the Land of Enchantment — and the country.

REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy

Marc Bayard, Allan M. Freyer, Ph.D., Robyn Hyden

Greater Birmingham, AL, has experienced a resurgence in economic growth and civic engagement. Yet the benefits of this prosperity are not widely shared.

Report: Billionaire Enabler States

A landscape devastated by coal mines in La Guajira, Colombia (Shutterstock)

IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond

Jennifer Moore

With our allies, we’ve prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.

Report: Gilded Giving 2022

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery

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

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

Massachusetts billionaires’ wealth surges 46 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive Excess 2022

Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, Brian Wakamo

The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs.

Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year

Chuck Collins

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.