Lifting student debt burdens would particularly benefit people of color, while giving the economy a major boost.
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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
Protect, Repair, Invest, and Transform
Why the IPS Climate Policy Program Supports a People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy.
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Congress Should Pass an Emergency Charity Stimulus
As wealth concentrates, so have charitable dollars. To get donations to frontline nonprofits, Congress must pass an emergency charity stimulus.
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Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Gains Surge Past Half-Trillion as 42.6 million File for Unemployment
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Up $565 billion since March 18, a gain of
over 19 percent.
The Looming New Amityville Horror
One of the nation’s largest middle-class counties faces a huge hit on public school budgets as the super rich get set to frolic in the summertime surf.
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Trump’s War on the Hungry
The Trump administration has waged war on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps.
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Ipsos Poll: 72 Percent of Americans Support an Emergency Charity Stimulus
New research finds that many aspects of private foundations and DAFs are not acceptable to Americans.
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Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — health, economic, violence, militarization, and corporate capture.
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‘Failed State’ Status Here We Come?
Societies that tolerate deep divides in income and wealth invite pandemic disasters.
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Coronavirus Denial and Climate Denial Have One Thing in Common: Greed
Despite 100,000 confirmed US coronavirus deaths, powerful economic interests are fighting to reopen the country prematurely — no matter the cost to workers.
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Reports
Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose
Billionaires Win, We Lose
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’ report urges Delinquent Dozen companies to protect workers from exploitative owners and executives.
How U.S. Trade Policy Failed Workers — And How to Fix It
Now more than ever, we need a new trade policy to support an economic recovery from the pandemic and to start building an economy that works for everyone.