A slow descent wouldn’t be disastrous.
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
Rooting out Fake Job Creators
Without serious accountability, the rallying cry for more “job creation” is likely to amount to nothing more than empty rhetoric.
Read moreHealing our Health Care System
Unsafe nurse-to-patient staffing levels are a key cause of 98,000 preventable deaths each year.
Read moreA Bold New Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’
A national labor leader aims to expand the economic fairness debate.
Read morePercolate-Up Economics
Every dime of a minimum-wage hike is spent by its recipients — circulating upward in our local economies as they increase their purchases of such basics as food, kids’ clothing, and health care.
Read moreHellish Working Conditions
This is what the promised land of free trade looks like.
Read moreThe Race to the Bottom
The American middle class isn’t the envy of the world anymore.
Read moreThe Lineup: Week of August 20-26, 2012
Sam Pizzigati and Scott Klinger explain how American taxpayers are subsidizing runaway CEO pay.
Read moreFix the Minimum Wage
Americans who work hard should be able to make a living.
Read moreWashington, Are You Listening?
The Bush tax cuts siphon off money that could fund education and other crucial programs.
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