While the African-American and Latino communities are growing, our fight for civil rights and equality is far from over.
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.
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Diplomacy Is the Only Way Forward with Iran
The parties must come to a compromise through negotiations.
Read moreWalmart’s Unsurprising Bribes
Bribery is as American as apple pie.
Read moreLobby Responsibly
Anheuser-Busch and other big brewers blocked a Nebraska bill that would have curbed sales targeted at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Read moreUnited States of Walmart
Buy two congressmen, get one free.
Read moreWhat Medical Mistakes?
Privilege rules at U.S. hospitals and patients are at the mercy of powerful players who operate with impunity.
Read moreThe Nonsense Zone
IPS is grateful to Bill O’Reilly for this opportunity to showcase our proud history of public scholarship on inequality, peace, justice, and the environment.
Read moreThe Lineup: Week of May 21-27, 2012
Margot McMillen explains why the opposition to a new kind of genetically engineered corn is growing as fast as the hardy superweeds it’s supposed to destroy.
Read moreCrushing College Dreams
On the very day that student loan debt reached the $1-trillion mark, Senate Republicans blocked a vote to extend the 3.4-percent interest rate on student loans for another year.
Read moreWe Can’t Afford Energy Subsidies and Tax Breaks
Energy subsidies are obsolete, ineffective, and a huge waste of valuable public resources at a time when we are rummaging through the couch cushions to find loose change to pay for our ballooning deficits and debt.
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