Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
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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
Did America’s Greediest Corporation Just Become Greedier?
Recently added to the Walmart governing board: still another expert in enriching top execs at worker and taxpayer expense.
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The Simple Rules of Wealth Inequality
The rich won’t be paying their fair share of taxes as long as our tax system speeds wealth’s concentration.
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To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act
The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
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Billionaire Wealth Gains Could Pay for Two-Thirds of COVID Relief Bill
America’s wealthiest 657 billionaires stand $1.3 trillion richer than they were last March.
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Biden’s Relief Package Is a Huge Victory for Workers
It’s one of the largest antipoverty programs ever passed — and will save worker pensions throughout the country.
Read moreNew Report: Frist Family Pandemic Fortunes
Pandemic doubles wealth of private, for-profit hospital billionaire Thomas F. Frist Jr.’s family to $15.6 billion.
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Frist Family Leads Pandemic Profiteer Parade in Health Sector
For-profit hospital billionaire owners see their wealth increase by $8.1 billion since March 2020.
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Why the Amazon Worker Vote in Bessemer Means So Much
Unions don’t just raise worker wages. They help flatten grand private plutocratic fortunes.
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Biden Needs to Keep His Promises on Immigration
The new administration has made some welcome changes, but Biden isn’t living up to all his promises — especially on detention.
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Reports
REPORT: The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy
New analysis details how the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence, while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill.
FACT SHEET: Invest in Communities, Not Violence
Here’s how legislators have splurged on militarism, and what could happen if those funds instead benefited people and communities.
REPORT: Hanscom High Flyers
Private jet travel is a monumental example of private excess at public expense. Here’s a local case study.
REPORT: Executive Excess 2023
These “Low Wage 100” large corporations are enriching CEOs at the expense of both workers and taxpayers.
REPORT: Still A Dream: Over 500 Years to Black Economic Equality
60 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the racial wealth divide persists.