Taking the census ensures your community gets its fair share of funding — and representation — during the pandemic and beyond.
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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
Black Labor Leaders Are Needed Now More Than Ever
We’re working to build the leadership and strategists that a diverse labor and worker movement demands today.
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15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, It’s Time to Demilitarize Disaster Relief
Instead of funneling hundreds of billions of dollars each year into militarism, we can invest in the infrastructure of care we need to keep each other safe.
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Professional Athletes and the Power of a Union
If a few sports walkouts can force change on the national level, imagine what an Amazon or Wal-Mart walkout could do.
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All the Latest on Trump’s War on Our Public Postal Service
The House passed legislation to defend the Postal Service. If the Senate doesn’t do the same, Postmaster General DeJoy will continue dismantling it.
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How We Can Save Aviation Without Enriching Airline CEOs
We can funnel our virus aid tax dollars only to airlines that keep their pay gaps modest.
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In a Pandemic, We Need Democracy — Not Billionaire Charity
We need a movement to democratize philanthropy — and the concentrated wealth that increasingly defines it.
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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.
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It Is Time to Levy a One-Time Pandemic Wealth Tax on Billionaires’ Windfall Gains
How we face this extraordinary inequality is the ultimate test of what kind of country we are and what we will become.
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The Fox Is Still in the Henhouse at the Post Office
In the face of a historic public outcry, the postmaster general has promised to stop sabotaging essential services — temporarily.
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Reports
REPORT: The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare
Nearly two-thirds of the federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
REPORT: A Tale of Two Retirements 2023
Our tax code helps CEOs retire in luxury while ordinary workers struggle. Here’s how to fix it.
Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet
In this report, we assess the environmental, economic, and security risks of private jet travel — and lay out tax reforms to offset them.
Tax Day 2023: Where Your 2022 Tax Dollars Went
IPS’s National Priorities Project takes a look at where American taxpayers’ money went in 2022, and how skewed our national priorities are.
Wall Street Bonuses Decline But Still Dwarf Worker Pay Increases Since 2008 Crash
Since 2008, the average Wall Street bonus has climbed by more than 75 percent, compared to just a 54 percent increase in average earnings of all private sector workers and a 42 percent rise in manufacturing wages. If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $42.37 today.