If you can get past the fuzzy math, Trump’s budget means certain pain for most families — and big tax cuts for the wealthiest few.
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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Illinois is Tired of Carrying the Carried Interest Loophole
After two years without a budget, the Illinois state senate moves to close a tax loophole that cost the state billions.
Read moreHow Extreme Inequality Breeds Contempt for the Vulnerable
We need to do more than assail the heartless new Trump budget. We need to understand its roots in our chronic and continuing inequality.
Read moreWho Suffers the Most from the U.S. Drug War? Families
How drug-related suffering can bring black and white families together against a failed punitive model.
Read moreDonald Trump Is Playing ‘Bad Cop’ With His Extremist Budget Proposal
The president is useful to Republicans because he allows them to appear comparably less extreme than they actually are.
Read moreThe Walmart Tax
When you pay your workers so little, it’s the American taxpayers who make up the gap. But how do we stop subsidizing wage theft?
Read moreEnvisioning a Post-Trump Future
A new book published by the Next Systems Project challenges us to think past today’s daily scandals to consider exactly what kind of society we want to live in.
Read moreWealthy Heir Says: “Tax Me!”
A beneficiary of family wealth speaks out against a Washington, D.C. proposal to pay for estate tax cuts by shortchanging public services.
Read moreEl Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
On 30th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country in the world to do so.
Read moreThe Gratifying Challenges of Mothering a Trans Child
Mothering a transgender child several years before there was any public understanding of what makes a baby transgender is a mountain most mothers hope they don’t have to climb. But mothers don’t have the luxury of staying confused.
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