After a 12-year struggle, Salvadoran lawmakers voted to ban mining for metals.
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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The History of Taxes, in One Mega-Rich Family
The Rockefellers saw their wealth slimmed down by taxes—but it grew back.
Read moreMy Autistic Child Isn’t ‘Diseased’
Instead of trying to “cure” autism, we should focus on creating a friendlier, more respectful environment.
Read moreAmericans Want To Know What Their CEO Makes
The SEC chairman invited America to dump on government regulation. America declined.
Read more‘Deaths of Despair’ Rising for White Working Class
A new study points to rising hopelessness as a major driver of the declining health and life expectancy of working class white Americans.
Read moreSeattle Takes on the Trump Budget
Trump’s budget would make Seattle’s housing crisis worse—so a new campaign is looking to make the city “Trump-proof”.
Read moreMore Americans Are Drowning Financially in Underwater Nation
20% of Americans have zero or negative net worth—and that number is growing.
Read moreThe GOP Health Plan Would Make the Opioid Crisis Even Worse
States that supported Trump are going to be the hardest hit.
Read moreTrump’s Proposed Budget Would Spell Disaster for Low-income Communities
The administration wants massive cuts to public services, but his base depends on an engaged federal government, IPS economic inequality expert Chuck Collins tells Rising Up with Sonali.
Read moreThe CEO Pay Tax Break in the Republican Health Care Proposal
A new report analyzes the cost of removing Obamacare limits on the tax deductibility of executive compensation, based on pay data at the top 5 insurers.
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