Pay my fair share of taxes? What is this, socialism?
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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
Occupy DC: My Speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The chamber helps the “built-to-loot” companies.
Read moreWhen IPS and the Heritage Foundation Agree that Something’s a Bad Idea, It Probably Does Stink
A bipartisan Senate bill that would grant corporations a tax holiday is slated to be introduced tomorrow, just days after the progressive and conservative organizations released reports about how these tax giveaways don’t spur job growth.
Read moreThink Tanks on the Right and Left Agree: Corporate Tax Holidays Lead to Layoffs, Not Jobs
Left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies and right-leaning Heritage Foundation release the same report findings on the same day: Corporations that claimed tax holidays in 2004 pocketed the cash and downsized workers.
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America Loses: Corporations That Take “Tax Holidays” Slash Jobs
Some of America’s most flush corporations are demanding a tax holiday on their profits sitting offshore. But the last holiday produced a nasty hangover.
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Uncle Sam Should Support Built-to-Last Companies, Not Built-to-Loot Enterprises
There’s nothing holding back the corporations demanding another tax holiday from investing in America right now.
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Heroes Fighting to Save the Middle Class: Wisconsin’s Progressives
The Institute for Policy Studies recognizes Wisconsin’s progressive movement with the prestigious Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
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The Lineup: Week of Oct. 3-9, 2011
Marc Morial and Khalil Bendib address capital punishment’s “long shadow of doubt” in the wake of Troy Davis’s execution.
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Columbus Day Questions
On this Columbus Day, let’s consider the discrepancy between how newcomers are celebrated in our history but ostracized in our society.
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A Long Shadow of Doubt: The Execution of Troy Davis
As Justice Marshall once said, “the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come.”
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Reports
Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy
How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy
White Supremacy is the Preexisting Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide
Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide.
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms—the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism.
Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020
Billionaire wealth has grown astoundingly over the last few decades — and, for some “pandemic profiteers,” even more dramatically since the COVID-19 crisis.
