The Great Recession, a new study shows, has driven the sharpest decline in reported happiness since researchers started collecting consistent data.
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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Congress Wants to Cut Your Health Care — And Billionaires’ Taxes
But health care costs, not corporate taxes, are the real drain on the U.S. economy.
Read moreWhere Did Our Trade Unions Go?
In today’s ‘union-free’ environment, top corporate execs can pay themselves at levels their predecessors would have considered unimaginable.
Read moreThe Moms Fighting for Their Kids Behind Bars
For the mothers of the 54,000 children incarcerated in this country — the most of any in the world — Mother’s Day rings in an acute pain.
Read moreMothers at the Gate Re-Release
In honor of the mothers nation-wide struggling for justice for their incarcerated or formerly incarcerated children
Read moreIf Washington Won’t Rein in Corporate Greed, Your State Might
A business owner turned state legislator is working to rein in runaway pay at the top of the corporate ladder.
Read moreReagan’s Tax Reform Was A Bipartisan Effort of Surrender to America’s Deepest Pockets
The Reaganites didn’t compromise away any of their core commitments. The Democrats did.
Read moreAutomation Kills Jobs and Brings Mass Poverty. Call That Progress?
The “One Rich Guy” who profits would.
Read moreHow Will the White House Try to Sell its Corporate Tax Cuts?
In real life, these lavish tax breaks for corporate titans have nothing to do with protecting the health and safety of American workers.
Read moreThe Myths Behind Inequality in Our Country
Imploring people to simply work harder ignores the fact that most jobs don’t pay enough to get ahead.
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