Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation’s capital.
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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Gun Ownership Is a Hobby, Not a Right
Sure, some people can use guns safely. Some people can also smoke crack safely, drink and drive safely and handle explosives safely. We don’t let them because too many other people can’t.
Read moreOur Great Fiscal Opportunity
This is a chance for the American public to engage in a critical debate over national priorities.
Read moreLatest “Fiscal Cliff” Proposals Would Deepen Inequality
The early reaction by many progressive organizations is that it would be better to go over the cliff than accept the emerging bargain the President has offered.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: Kaul Writes Again and Richardson Becomes Our Newest Weekly Columnist
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Read moreEuropean Parliament Supports Robin Hood Tax in Landslide Vote
Yeas outnumbered nays by a margin of 6-to-1. The next step will be a vote in the European Council, which is likely to happen in early 2013.
Read moreThis Week in OtherWords: 12-12-12
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Read moreRipe for Reduction
The pending budget deal must include long-overdue military spending cuts.
Read moreOur National Failure to Commit
The Senate hasn’t approved any major multilateral treaties since 1997.
Read moreJobs or the Environment?
Soon it will be too late and we’ll have neither.
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