The teacher’s strike holds a lesson for other states: slashing taxes is no excuse for underfunding education.
Read moreEconomic 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.
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A Media Mogul’s Noble Challenge to Moguldom
The newspaper publishing giant E.W. Scripps would be deeply distressed to see what has become of his namesake company – and beloved country.
Read moreDel Monte’s Pay Ratio is Largest to Date at 1,465:1
Corporate disclosures show astoundingly significant gaps between CEO and median-worker pay among Fortune 500 firms.
Read moreHow Gary Cohn and Andrew Mellon Both Failed America
Mellon’s failure greased the nation’s way into a decade of Great Depression. Will Cohn’s tax-cuts do the same?
Read more8 Trailblazing Women Leading the Fight Against Inequality
In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting eight fearless women leading some of today’s biggest and most impactful social movements.
Read more11 “Small” Banks That Would Benefit from Deregulation Bill Have Huge Pay Gaps of 146 to 1
Supporters of a Senate-approved deregulation bill claim it will provide relief for community banks. But, judging by the size of the beneficiaries’ CEO-worker pay ratios, they are hardly Mom & Pops.
Read moreOne-Time Bonuses, Full-Time Con: Trump’s Tax Cuts Deliver Worker Layoffs
Corporate public relations teams extol bonuses to pump up the Republican re-election effort, but many people will end up unemployed.
Read moreJust How Unequal Are America’s Major Corporations?
Pay scales at major U.S. businesses are way out of whack — and that’s just at the ones we know about.
Read moreGetting Real About School Safety
Armed adults don’t make kids safer. They put them at greater risk.
Read moreHow to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through State Government Taxes
As the new federal tax law slashes IRS bills for corporations and the wealthy, the momentum is growing for progressive state-level taxes that could recoup some of these resources.
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