Our tax dollars don’t have to be feeding executive-suite greed and grasping.
Read moreEconomic 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
Billionaire Wealth Is Spiraling out of Control
Omar Ocampo joins Harrison’s Reality Check to discuss a modest annual tax on the world’s richest, and what we could accomplish with that revenue.
Read moreTwo Sides, Same Coin: Suppressing Votes, Cutting Rich People’s Taxes
State lawmakers are moving hard and fast to keep their wealthy backers wealthy.
Read moreCare Workers Are Not Giving up on Build Back Better
Over 35,000 people joined a recent telephone town hall to kick off a six-week campaign to protect investments in the care economy.
Read moreTaxing Extreme Wealth Could Lift 2.3 Billion People Out of Poverty
Extreme inequality is the preexisting condition that made our society more vulnerable to disease and undermined a robust global public health response.
Read moreTaxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
A new analysis by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking rise in global wealth among the world’s richest people despite deepening inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr.’s Internationalist Vision is More Crucial Than Ever
On MLK Day this year, it’s worth remembering not just King’s sharp diagnosis of American society’s ills, but also his prescription for transformative social change.
Read moreStudent Debt Cancellation is a Racial Justice Issue
Presidential executive action to cancel up to $50,000 in student debts would increase Black wealth by 40 percent.
Read moreDr. King Remained Hopeful. So Can We.
King’s “Testament of Hope” sounds as relevant today as the day it was published.
Read moreCollege Football Coaches Making $25,000 a Day? Let’s Sideline This Lunacy!
The gridiron game has a penalty for illegal holding. We need one for hoarding.
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