We can thank inequality for America’s inadequate — and increasingly unsafe — basic infrastructure.
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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
Rubio’s False Promise
He’s on the wrong side of too many issues that matter to Latinos.
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Let’s Protect Children, Not Guns
If Congress passed stronger gun laws and closed loopholes, it would save lives.
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High-Speed Collusion
Verizon wants to ink cartel-like deals with a cabal of cable companies — its former competitors — to resell each other’s products.
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Breathing While Black
Strip searches are now legal after arrests for violating leash laws or riding a bicycle without an audible bell.
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The GOP’s Money Man
Like ugly on a hog, Romney just can’t hide the depth of his personal wealth.
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Crime Watch
What really happened to Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.
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The Poor as Collateral Damage
There are places where basic food, shelter, health care, and good schools are available to everyone, but not here.
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99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It
Chuck Collins’ new book provides revealing and powerful information about inequality in all realms of today’s world, including individual wealth and power, corporate wealth and power, media control, political influence, and other areas.
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The Great White Mancave
A study of three prominent op-ed sections highlights their byline diversity problem and the conservative tilt of the nation’s top columnists.
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Reports
Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”
An annual wealth tax on the world’s richest could raise $1.7 trillion globally.
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Greater Birmingham, AL, has experienced a resurgence in economic growth and civic engagement. Yet the benefits of this prosperity are not widely shared.
IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond
With our allies, we’ve prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.