We need outside-the-box solutions that both protect human rights and make economic sense.
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
Education Cuts Aren’t Smart
Too many states are choosing to balance budgets on the backs of children.
Read moreLosing My Cool
Obama seems to have confused the “bully pulpit” with a “bully suggestion box.”
Read moreShoveling America’s Wealth to the Top
Not since the Gilded Age, which preceded and precipitated the Great Depression, have so few amassed so much of our nation’s riches.
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Voting Rights Obstacles
All right, lady; on your marks…
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Disenfranchising Voters is Un-American
Buying elections on the one hand and keeping people away from the polls on the other isn’t what our democracy is supposed to be about.
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Human Rights over Corporate Rights: Taking on the Trade Laws of the 1 Percent
A protest at the World Bank supported El Salvador’s attempts to say no to gold mining and yes to democracy.
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The Lineup: Week of Dec. 26, 2011- Jan. 1, 2012
If you’re one of the many readers who eagerly await Donald Kaul’s weekly column, or a newspaper editor who would panic if we suddenly stopped showing up in your inbox, please make a tax-deductible contribution today.
Read moreTwo Cold War Milestones
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Czech leader Vaclav Havel, although political opposites, shared some things in common.
Read moreDefending the Ballot Box
African-American churches can make a difference in 2012.
Read moreIPS Projects
Reports
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.
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.
The Other Side of the Storm
What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of Covid-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure?
Bay State Billionaires
Massachusetts billionaires’ wealth surges 46 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.