Jim Hightower lampoons a luxury tent Neiman Marcus is marketing to the uber-rich this holiday season.
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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
2012 Won’t Be the Same without Herman Cain
The Institute’s deadline poet bids farewell to the former GOP front-runner’s entertaining presidential bid.
Read moreThe Rich Don’t Need a Free Ride
Why should I pay no taxes while someone who gets up and goes to work every day does?
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Hardly Working
Unemployed and under-employed Americans are enduring hiring discrimination as well as financial and emotional distress.
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Cut the Pentagon’s Budget, Make the U.S. Safer
Let’s have a discussion about the benefits of pouring more and more money into wars.
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Mitt’s Personhood Problem
The media is ignoring Romney’s view that fertilized human eggs deserve legal rights.
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Ethnic Jokes are a Fool’s Game
In any case, being good at pasta is better than being good at war.
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How the 1 Percent Can Camp Out with the 99 Percent
Neiman Marcus is selling decadent tents that are more opulent than the interior of that I Dream of Jeannie bottle.
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The Long Road to Marriage Equality
As the suffragists who fought for voting rights for women and the abolitionists who struggled to end slavery learned, freedom takes time.
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Occupy Ellis Island
She should take a shower and get a job.
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Reports
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose
Billionaires Win, We Lose
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.