“Ultimately as we build the union movement in this country, what we are fighting for is an economy that works for everybody, not just a handful of billionaires.”
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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
What’s Going on in Buffalo These Days Can Be Inspiring — and Plenty Sobering Too
Buffalo’s baristas give us hope. Buffalo’s pols, meanwhile, are giving oligarchy our hard-earned tax dollars.
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Don’t Give Up on Taxing Billionaires
Federal estate tax has become porous and effectively optional for the wealthiest households.
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Is Joe Biden Channeling Tom Paine?
The new White House budget plan echoes wealth tax perspectives over two centuries old.
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Closing the Loopholes America’s Super Rich Love: Can the Dog Catch Its Tail?
How we can prevent the wealthiest of our wealthy from exempting virtually unlimited billions from tax.
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It’s Farmworker Awareness Week. Here’s What Those Who Feed Us Deserve.
The workers who put food on our tables face poverty, deportation, and extreme heat. These are policy choices—and they can be changed.
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Biden Budget Takes a Step Toward Corralling Out-Of-Control CEO Pay
Administration proposal would restrict insider trades, and impose a tax on stock buybacks that largely benefit the fat cats.
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Who’s Enabling Putin’s Enablers?
If global oligarchy ‘business as usual ’ survives the Ukraine war, the rest of us will end up big losers.
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Time to Move the Money: Independent Research on Donor-Advised Funds
Charitable giving has become a taxpayer-subsidized extension of private power and influence for the wealthiest people in the country. It’s time to fix that.
Read moreNew Research from the Institute for Policy Studies Shows How the Rich Use Donor-Advised Funds to Warehouse Charitable Wealth
DAFs have been used to transform philanthropy into a taxpayer-subsidized extension of private power and influence for the wealthy.
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Reports
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose
Billionaires Win, We Lose
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.