The $7-billion reconstruction of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland is in the hands of a state-subsidized Chinese company.
Read more
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
Lobbying the Supercommittee
No moneybags, no service.
Read more
Not All Taxes Have to Hurt
Millionaires, who rightfully are the target for paying more, want us to think that any changes in the tax code will mean that we’ll all be paying more too.
Read more
Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation
The struggle to tax Wall Street moved forward in Cannes.
Read more
Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit
The 99 percent and the 0.001 percent agree on something, but the Obama administration is holding out.
Read more
The G20 and the New World Order
Signs of China’s growing influence are inescapable in Cannes.
Read moreWealthy People Show Support for Protests with new website: “We are the 1 percent. We stand with the 99 percent.”
Resource Generation and Wealth for Common Good today announced a new website for wealthy people to show their support for the Occupy movement.
Read moreRick Perry: Reverse Robin Hood
The Texas governor’s new plan is to give more money to the rich, but he says he “doesn’t care.”
Read more
OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality
Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.
Read more
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011
Deborah Burger calls for a new Wall Street tax and Libby Reinish reports on the quiet consolidation underway in the coverage of local TV news.
Read moreIPS Projects
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.