The landmark collective bargaining agreement for the United States Women’s National Team creates a blueprint for equity across global sports organizations.
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Economic Justice
Combating inequality means both lifting up and building power at the bottom, and breaking up concentration of wealth and power at the top. That’s why we work at the intersection of economic and racial justice through projects designed to build leadership and self-empowerment of black workers, immigrant workers, and low-wage workers, youth and families affected by incarceration, along with projects aiming to reverse the rules that criminalize poor people of color, and projects fighting to ensure that the wealthy and Wall Street corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Latest Work
Debunking the Myth of the Fleeing Millionaire
As it turns out, high-earners won’t leave if you increase their taxes.
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One Million COVID-19 Deaths Is a Searing Indictment of Inequality in America
It was poverty that made the pandemic so deadly. We shouldn’t compound the tragedy of 1 million COVID-19 deaths by letting it continue.
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Nurses are Standing Up to Profiteers and Demanding Universal Healthcare
The first-ever Senate hearing on Medicare for All examined how our profit-driven healthcare system endangers patients and betrays nurses.
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JPMorgan Might Kneel for ‘Justice’ But It Isn’t Standing For True Racial Equity
As is clear from the immense harm corporations continue to cause to communities of color, a racial equity audit is just the first step of many to hold these companies accountable.
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The Height of Folly: Safeboxes in the Sky
Can’t our society find something better to do than give billionaires playpens over a quarter-mile up?
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Our Outrageous CEO-Worker Pay Gap: Unfair and Unwise
Why support for capping CEO pay will only keep growing.
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The Gilded Glamour Met Gala Was a Fantasia of Inequality
Our second Gilded Age isn’t as enchanting as Condé Nast and celebrity spectacle make it seem – but a red carpet parade while event workers struggle for dignified treatment epitomizes the era.
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What Remains of the U.S. Green New Deal?
Build Back Better is on the ropes. But other parts of a just transition are moving forward.
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Billionaire Wealth up $1.7 Trillion as U.S. Passes 1 Million COVID Deaths Milestone
The U.S. has recorded 1 million COVID deaths. In the time it took to reach that grim milestone, billionaire wealth is up $1.7 trillion.
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Reports
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose
Billionaires Win, We Lose
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.