Jill Richardson makes the case for raising chickens in your backyard and Sam Pizzigati discusses Ford’s worker-financed bailout.
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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The Military-Industrial Threat to the Nation’s Well-Being
It’s time for some serious spring cleaning at the Pentagon.
Read moreInequality Is Hurting Us All
If the levels of greater income equality of 1968 still prevailed today, the poorest fifth of Marylanders would be earning twice what they take home now.
Read moreNew Report Exposes Extreme Disparity in the Social Security Debate
Compared with ordinary Americans, CEOs pushing cuts have little to lose. CEO-backed cuts would reduce retirement benefits for a typical home care worker by almost 16 percent.
Read moreReport: Inequality in the Social Security Debate
How benefit cuts would impact health industry CEOs versus home health aides.
Read moreFacing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty
Damage from 20 years of NAFTA shows us why latest trade deal must be stopped. Free trade creates rich people, poor communities.
Read moreBehind the Kitchen Door: A Must-Read for Anyone Who Eats at Restaurants
More than half of the nation’s worst-paid jobs are related to food. Saru Jayaraman’s new book dives into the explosive movement for better rights for those who plant, process, and cook the food we eat.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: February 27, 2013
Jo Comerford likens the imminent across-the-board budget cuts to a truck careening toward a brick wall.
Read moreA Global Spotlight on Voter Suppression
Heinous schemes to limit the right to vote keep appearing in state legislatures.
Read moreWhat Post-Racial America?
It will take more than President Barack Obama’s tenure to vanquish American prejudice and racial injustice.
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