When not being shooed off the courthouse steps by police, the crowd sang “God Bless America” and “Goin’ to the Chapel.”
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.
Latest Work
Runaway CEO Pay Gets a Free Pass
The House Financial Services Committee has just moved to repeal the only statutory provision now on the books that puts real heat on overpaid top executives.
Read moreToday’s Mad Men
The military justice system needs a 21st century wake-up call.
Read moreFair Elections, RIP
The Supreme Court’s Shelby ruling aids a Republican plan to win more elections without winning support from more voters.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: June 26, 2013
Julian Bond calls on Congress to fix the mistakes the Supreme Court made in its ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Read moreNew Guide Explains How and Why America Has Become So Unequal
Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality, a new publication of Inequality.org by Colin Gordon, dives deeply into history, explores current events, and examines the root causes of inequality.
Read moreA Tax System that Targets Workers
U.S. rates on wealth have fallen while rates on labor income have gone up. That’s unsustainable.
Read moreTaxing Work Too Much: Los Angeles Times Op-Ed by Sam Pizzigati and Bob Lord
They pinpoint what’s truly unsustainable about the nation’s tax system.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: June 19, 2013
Sam Pizzigati points out that the contracts our government doles out to private companies to snoop on us are making some corporate executives very rich.
Read moreA Deceptive Win on Plan B for Women
Our reproductive rights are still in danger.
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