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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Occupy Ellis Island
She should take a shower and get a job.
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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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Reports
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.
Executive Excess 2022
The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs.
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality