This report analyzes the retirement policies of the U.S. corporations leading the “Fix the Debt” campaign, which is calling for reduced spending on senior citizens’ benefits as part of a deal on the national debt.
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Archive: Reports
The CEO Campaign to ‘Fix’ the Debt: A Trojan Horse for Massive Corporate Tax Breaks
This business-driven initiative is using the so-called fiscal cliff as a cover for tax-code changes that would damage our economy.
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Rebalancing Our National Security: The Benefits of Implementing a Unified Security Budget
A team of experts recommend ways to rebalance our national security budget.
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Inequality Report Card: Grading Congress on Inequality
We evaluate how well members of congress do in supporting legislation and measures to narrow America’s widening economic divide.
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Managing the Uranium-233 Stockpile of the United States
A shocking IPS report about the U.S. government’s mismanagement of a dangerous bomb-grade nuclear material that they now want to bury straight into the ground.
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The Green Climate Fund’s “No-Objection” Procedure and Private Finance: Lessons Learned from Existing Institutions
IPS teamed up with Friends of the Earth and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives to produce this set of recommendations for the future of the Green Climate Fund.
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Executive Excess 2012: The CEO Hands in Uncle Sam’s Pocket
How our tax dollars subsidize exorbitant executive pay
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Playing the Spoiler in Colombia
The United States must stop supporting the perverse Colombian status quo that lies at the heart of the country’s prolonged civil war.
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Mexico’s Track Record: A Cautionary Tale for the G-20
As Mexico becomes the G-20 chair for 2012, its embrace of a neoliberal agenda of deregulation and privatization show a poor track record on all the group’s goals.
Read moreLine-by-line Analysis of National Defense Authorization Act, Nuclear Provisions
A detailed analysis of the actions and impact of sections relating to nuclear weapons in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013.
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The New U.S. Model Bilateral Investment Treaty: A Public Interest Critique
The new U.S. model BIT does not go far enough to address the concerns that labor unions and environmental, development, and other nongovernmental organizations have raised consistently for many years.
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Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors
Storing spent radioactive fuel in dry form rather than in increasingly jammed cooling pools is much safer, and can be done with already available funds.
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A Main Street Fix to Wall Street’s Failure
Building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate, our new report looks at the structural issues behind the economic crisis and how we can transition to a new economy based on Main Street.
Read moreMining for Profits in International Tribunals
Corporate lawsuits against governments over resource rights continue to increase.
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America Is Not Broke
How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.
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