Turning schools into prisons means sending kids to real-life prisons. There are better ways to keep students safe.
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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
New York Taxi Workers Defeat Uber and Lyft with Landmark Legislation
Ride-hailing companies and their corporate lobby were no match for the commitment of the city’s cab driver union.
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The Market Made Them Do It
Corporate boards are asking us to blame sky-high CEO pay on the laws of supply and demand.
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If Ireland Can Get Out of Fossil Fuels, Your Town Can Too
Almost 900 cities, universities, and governments have divested over $6 trillion from the fossil fuel industry. Why not yours?
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About Those Low CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
This year’s historic new CEO-worker pay gap disclosures have revealed a handful of big companies with modest internal pay gaps. Should we be applauding?
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You’ve Heard of the Gender Pay Gap, But There’s More
It takes the typical black woman all the way till August to earn what a white male worker got paid last year.
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Is Trump Lying About Economic Gains?
GDP is high. Unemployment is low. Why are we still seeing unprecedented levels of economic inequality?
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New Currencies for a New Economy
To build local power, activists in Bristol are taking aim at the root of all evils: money.
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Lancaster Shows How to Say No to Geo Group
A Pennsylvania county goes up against a giant of the private prison industry and comes out victorious.
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Collective Action is Key to Keeping Labor Strong
As long as workers band together, they can make concrete improvements in their working conditions.
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Reports
REPORT: The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare
Nearly two-thirds of the federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
REPORT: A Tale of Two Retirements 2023
Our tax code helps CEOs retire in luxury while ordinary workers struggle. Here’s how to fix it.
Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet
In this report, we assess the environmental, economic, and security risks of private jet travel — and lay out tax reforms to offset them.
Tax Day 2023: Where Your 2022 Tax Dollars Went
IPS’s National Priorities Project takes a look at where American taxpayers’ money went in 2022, and how skewed our national priorities are.
Wall Street Bonuses Decline But Still Dwarf Worker Pay Increases Since 2008 Crash
Since 2008, the average Wall Street bonus has climbed by more than 75 percent, compared to just a 54 percent increase in average earnings of all private sector workers and a 42 percent rise in manufacturing wages. If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $42.37 today.