This essential workforce is hustling to help holiday shoppers while also organizing hazard pay and other COVID-19 protections.
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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
Canadian Corporate Greed on Display in Mexico Mining Dispute
While gold prices soar, the Los Filos gold mine in Mexico sits idle. Equinox Gold, the company that owns the mine, has only itself to blame.
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The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade
What could be better than a drug that can stop COVID? A society that doesn’t let someone make billions off a drug millions can’t access.
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Why We Must Protect Essential Workers From Billionaire Pandemic Profiteers
Billionaires are sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets while essential workers are without adequate personal protective equipment.
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Who Needs Zombies When We Have Republicans?
How else would you describe Americans who deny a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 people and the election that repudiated Trump?
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Don’t Trash the Affordable Care Act—Expand It
Not even a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.
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Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’ report urges Delinquent Dozen companies to protect workers from exploitative owners and executives.
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The Federal Government Owns 92% of Student Debt. Will Biden Wipe It Out?
Lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.
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Why Can’t Inner-Ring Democrats Just Say ‘No’ to Billionaires?
The problem runs even deeper than Donor Class donations.
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After Boosting Low-Income Voter Turnout, Poor People’s Campaign Mobilizes for COVID Relief
People did not turn out in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. They want policy change based on a moral agenda.
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Reports
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’ report urges Delinquent Dozen companies to protect workers from exploitative owners and executives.
How U.S. Trade Policy Failed Workers — And How to Fix It
Now more than ever, we need a new trade policy to support an economic recovery from the pandemic and to start building an economy that works for everyone.
Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
Across the Global South, international mining companies use disturbing tactics to forcibly open mining operations against the wills of local communities.
Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy
How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy