In the current budget debate, the loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from two lobby groups led by CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security.
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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Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the Rest
Gone are the days when the U.S. accounted for over 40 percent of the world’s billionaires, with Western Europe and Japan making up most of the rest.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: October 9, 2013
Donald Kaul blames the shutdown and the debt-ceiling perils on “zombie lawmakers.”
Read moreForging Ahead at 50
Not every think tank could weather FBI infiltration, scapegoating by right-wing extremists, and even a car-bomb assassination.
Read moreThe IRS at 100: How Income Taxation Built the Middle Class
A century later, it’s clear that taxing the rich is necessary instead of catastrophic.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: October 2, 2013
Richard Kirsch explores the values divide contributing to the government’s shutdown while Donald Kaul blames the impasse on the Republican Party.
Read moreFibs and Falsehoods: Darden Corporation Claims ‘No One Makes $2.13 An Hour’
A recent IPS op-ed on tipped wages has provoked an unfounded attack by the world’s largest full service restaurant chain.
Read moreInequality for All: Documentary Antidote to “Elysium Economy”
From gated communities in outer space to graphs about who owns the wealth, two new films are giving Americans a window into the issue of income inequality.
Read moreA Golden Rule that Might Chip Away at Inequality
By making it mandatory for corporations to disclose the gap between what they pay their chief executives and most typical workers, the government will empower investors and consumers to compare individual corporations by their level of CEO greed.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: September 25, 2013
Marge Baker sizes up the next big campaign-finance case before the Supreme Court.
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