If you know where to look, there’s also a lot to be hopeful about. Here are a few villains that shaped 2021 for the worse — and a few heroes worth rooting for.
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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
Should one millionaire senator really be able to send millions of children back into poverty?
The human cost of Manchin’s threat to kill the Build Back Better Act.
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Congress Approved $778 Billion for the Pentagon. That Means We Can Afford Build Back Better.
Some senators say Biden’s social and climate bill costs too much, but comparing it to the military spending plan they just passed suggests otherwise.
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Three Reasons to Be Hopeful About 2022
The year to come could still see big changes for the better. Here’s how.
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Tornados Can Kill. So Can Amazon’s Business Model.
How long will we tolerate the corporate executive ‘risk taking’ that puts only workers at real risk?
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The Year in Inequality in 10 Charts
Our economic and racial divides grew even wider in 2021, but there are signs of hope for a more equitable future.
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Against Plutocrats, Platitudes — About Democracy — Will Always Be Pitiful
The Biden administration’s democracy initiative is missing the all-important inequality connection.
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Fact Sheet: A Moral Budget Versus a War Budget
Build Back Better and the National Defense Authorization Act represent diametrically opposed views of how to address the challenges of our time: a moral budget vs a war budget. Congress: Which side are you on?
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How Do We Fix Abuses of Donor-Advised Funds?
Donor-advised funds are set up to provide more benefit to their wealthy donors than to public charities. We can fix that.
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Might Starbucks Soon Start Sharing the Bucks?
Baristas in Buffalo are mounting the coffee giant’s most significant union challenge yet.
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Reports
Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”
An annual wealth tax on the world’s richest could raise $1.7 trillion globally.
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Greater Birmingham, AL, has experienced a resurgence in economic growth and civic engagement. Yet the benefits of this prosperity are not widely shared.
IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond
With our allies, we’ve prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.