Redistributing wealth downward, new calculations suggest, can make societies richer.
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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
How Billionaires’ Secretive Speculation Threatens the Next Financial Meltdown
The implosion of Archegos is an early warning sign about the next generation of unaccountable capital and exotic, risky financial instruments hidden inside ‘family offices.’
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Who Owns the City? Luxury Towers and Supercharged Gentrification
Wealthy workers moving into central, walkable neighborhoods has long caused gentrification, but global capital is exacerbating the situation.
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Decades of Warehousing Charity Dollars — the ‘Fidelity Effect’ on Charitable Giving
Critics of Donor-Advised Funds, or DAFs, have long argued that they starve nonprofits of much-needed funds by “warehousing” charitable donations.
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Poor People’s Campaign and House Progressives Call for a ‘Third Reconstruction’
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.
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Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven’t Heard About
With the collapse of Archegos Capital, family offices — a main tool of the wealth defense industry — are in the headlines.
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The Justice McDonald’s Workers Seek Workers at Spain’s Mondragón Have Found
We don’t have to organize our economy around enterprises that pay CEOs over 1,000 times what workers make.
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Green Jobs Are the Wave of the Future
Solar energy, in particular, shows potential to create inclusive, well-paying union jobs that working Americans need.
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U.S. Billionaire Wealth Skyrocketed 55 Percent During Pandemic, Accelerating Inequality
Pandemic inequalities may explain the popularity of proposals to restore progressive income and wealth taxes on the very wealthy.
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While Professing BLM Support, Wall Street Banks Reject Racial Equity Audits
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is urging shareholders to vote against a proposed review of the impact of bank policies and practices on racial inequality.
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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.