Program on Inequality and the Common Good

We’re witnessing accelerating advantages for the affluent and compounding disadvantages for everyone else.

Help us spread the word about our latest report, “The Ever-Growing Gap: Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won’t Match White Wealth for Centuries”

George Lakey’s new book, Viking Economics explains how the Nordic countries achieved their egalitarian society and high standard of living by addressing inequality.

Almost half of U.S. workers earn less than $15 an hour. This new report details their struggles.

In order to achieve climate justice, we must use both resistance to interrupt and prevent encroachment by a politically powerful fossil fuel industry and resilience to build new skills and institutions for sustainable communities.

The average debt for a college graduate is $37,000 and the system is trying to squeeze you harder than any generation before. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

If nothing changes in our tax code, the wealthiest 1 percent will claim half of all U.S. wealth in just 20 years.

CEOs who avoid taxes, squeeze their customers, and refuse to pay a fair wage can’t seem to understand why the rest of America is so upset.

The system is unfair — which Is why we dread this day. A “Who What Why’ radio interview with IPS’s Chuck Collins.

Quick comebacks to the regressive tax rhetoric you hear on the radio and around the dinner table.

Peabody Energy filed for bankruptcy today, but its top executives will still be enjoying the millions they pocketed before the collapse of coal.

This massive leak of transactions involving 214,488 offshore corporations, covering 40 years of activity, will boost the global movement to recapture trillions of the hidden wealth of nations.

Breaking from decades of aggressive tax avoidance, General Electric announced they will pay taxes in their future hometown…If only.

A network of 200 business leaders and high net worth individuals, are making their case in Albany for closing this egregious Wall Street handout.

Representative Martin Sabo fought for working people to reduce inequality. We’re proud to have worked alongside him.

The gap between richest and poorest communities grows, a reality plain to see in America’s heartland.

Eight bold solutions, rooted in social movements, that can break through our broken political system.

Cutting all taxes on investments was a bad idea sixteen years ago and remains a bad idea today.

The Facebook founder saw his wealth ranking jump while others sink. At his age, he appears to be the most likely candidate for the world’s first trillionaire.

People with working-class jobs in U.S. beach towns and ski resorts are getting pushed away by exorbitant housing costs.