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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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What 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.
Read moreLet’s Resist Herbicide-Resistant Crops
For farmers, fishermen, and consumers working to rebuild the fragile local food economy, a new kind of corn engineered to withstand toxic weedkillers is a disaster.
Read moreThe Truth’s Liberal Tilt
There’s no media bias in citing facts about Obama’s record.
Read moreRemembering Charles Colson
Tricky Dick’s master of dirty tricks became a Christian prison reformer but was no saintly do-gooder.
Read moreFeeding Obesity
The “Heart Attack Grill” takes pride in food that’s deep-fried.
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