Government policies and spending primarily support industrialized agriculture and the giant farms and corporations that profit from it.
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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
Congress: Listen to Lt. Col. Daniel Davis
The 17-year Army veteran risked his career by speaking out about the Afghanistan War.
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Riding on the Wrong Track
Stop the world; I want to get off.
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Congress Opts to Keep Poisoning Children
Lead poisoning is entirely preventable.
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Off Our Backs
I know how you guys feel.
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Energy: Too Important to Leave to Corporations
In the United States, profits rule while the environment takes a back seat.
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Letter from Kenya: An On-the-Ground Take on Kony 2012
The issues addressed and distorted in that video may seem like old news in the United States, but they are going to be pressing and current for many years to come for Uganda and its neighbors.
Read moreHealth Care Q & A
Not all the arguments about the Affordable Care Act take place in the Supreme Court.
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The Lineup: Week of March 26-April 1, 2012
Salvatore Babones debunks Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare concerns
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Ryan’s Medicare Hot Air
It’s simply not time to hit the panic button.
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Reports
Wall Street Bonuses Decline But Still Dwarf Worker Pay Increases Since 2008 Crash
Since 2008, the average Wall Street bonus has climbed by more than 75 percent, compared to just a 54 percent increase in average earnings of all private sector workers and a 42 percent rise in manufacturing wages. If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $42.37 today.
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.