As impeachment fades to a footnote, Trump’s most effective critics won’t be rehashing Ukraine. They’ll be organizing workers.
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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
Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit
Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity.
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There’s No ‘Great American Comeback’
Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its roots?
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In Blow to Privatizers, House Passes Postal Financial Relief
The bipartisan bill would ease financial challenges critics use to justify postal worker wage cuts and selling parts of USPS to for-profit corporations.
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Progressive Experts Rebut Trump’s False Claims About Shared Prosperity
In his State of the Union address, the president made a poor attempt to conceal the continued rise in economic inequality under his administration.
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Trump Claims Credit for Life Expectancy Rise, Introduces Medicaid Cutback
U.S. life expectancy rose for the first time in four years because of a drop in opioid overdose deaths. Now Trump, who claims credit, wants to cut Medicaid.
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From the UN, New Ammo for Egalitarians
The United Nations might be fading, but this new report deserves a bright spotlight.
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NFL Owners Want Politics out of Their Sport — Unless It Comes From Them
The NFL strives to keep politics out of football ahead of the Super Bowl, except for when it comes from billionaire owners.
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Iowa’s ‘First in the Nation’ Contest Is Also One of the Most Inequitable
Voting must be accessible for all citizens, regardless of their income, language spoken, skin color, or whether they served time in prison.
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Luanda Leaks and the Global Wealth Defense Industry
Why we should focus on the enablers exposed in the Angola scandal: Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, and PwC.
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Reports
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.
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.