It’s unlikely that Eric Cantor’s continuous defense of tax breaks for so-called “job creators” takes into account job-destroying, tax-dodging CEOs.
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
The Lineup: Week of Sept. 19-25, 2011
Karen Dolan explains why we need to preserve the nation’s safety net.
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With Poverty on the Rise, this is no Time to Slash the Safety Net
The tea party and its ilk offer us only cold cups of bitter tea while serving up fountains of champagne to the super-rich, Wall Street, and big corporations.
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Does the GOP Hate Women?
Even though they’re afraid to utter the W word, it’s pretty easy to see what their views are on issues concerning the majority of voters.
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It’s Time to Study Social Security’s Origins
The Great Depression taught Americans that the costs of unemployment and poverty are shared by all of us.
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Unemployed for Life?
Millions of jobless Americans can’t get work precisely because they’re out of work.
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Heroes of the Republic
You don’t have to support Stephen Colbert’s Super-PAC to earn this proud distinction.
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A Perry Tale about the Prince of Privilege
Prince Rick wouldn’t be where he is without the steady “intrusion” of big government into his life.
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We Need an Armistice in the War on Drugs
For the moment at least, we’re headed toward softening the penalties on marijuana and letting patients use it, while also reducing the obscene punishments for possessing crack cocaine.
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Perry’s Feast
The trouble with this country is government largesse! Burp.
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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.
