A new report by IPS and Campaign for America’s Future shows that America’s top CEOs are pocketing massive taxpayer subsidies at the same time they’re pushing austerity cutbacks in government programs that benefit ordinary citizens.
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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Austerity Will Leave Us Crying ’96 Tears’
But America’s wealthy don’t seem to mind.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: May 1, 2013
Jo Comerford and Donald Kaul weigh in on the government’s reversal of sequester-driven cuts that were making air travel inconvenient.
Read moreInside-outside Strategy on Wall Street Tax
countries are already raising significant revenue from national financial transaction taxes.
Read moreTracking CEO Pay
The most important executive compensation indicator is the gap between what CEOs and their workers are paid.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: April 24, 2013
Jill Richardson looks at the Texas factory explosion in the context of whether we should be using so much nitrogen fertilizer in the first place.
Read moreThe Pot Prohibition Runs Its Course
Now that most Americans support the legalization of marijuana, some Republicans back the right of states to stop banning it.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: April 17, 2013
Donald Kaul skewers the “progress” Congress is making on gun control.
Read moreThe Art of Inequality
Monumental gifts to museums are coinciding with the erosion of arts programs at the nation’s public schools.
Read moreHow About a Tax System for the 99 Percent?
Feeling like taxes are more unfair than ever?
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