CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don’t respect their employees.
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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
A ‘Red Deal’: Why Indigenous Communities Belong at the Center of Climate Action
Policies that aren’t rooted in Indigenous communities can cause many of the same oppressive outcomes as extraction.
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Even Alongside Impeachment, AOC’s Plan to Eradicate Poverty Should Be Headline News
While Trump’s potential impeachment dominates news feeds, let’s not lose sight of the deep policy changes needed to make this country work for all of us.
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Have Researchers Just Hit an Inequality Trifecta?
Three new sets of stats help us understand why America’s 400 richest have never been richer.
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Inequality Is Literally Killing Us
Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live.
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California Takes On the NCAA and Allows College Athletes to Get Paid
The NCAA brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue annually. Meanwhile, college athletes struggle to make ends meet. California wants to change that.
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The Key to Distributing Wealth More Equitably
We only build and sustain more equal societies when we confront the economic dynamics that generate inequality in the first place.
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Census Fails to Count 100 Million People as Living in Poverty
Census data asserts US poverty has fallen to 11.8 percent, or 38.1 million Americans. Yet, 40 percent of all Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency.
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Paying the Boss 1,000 Times More Than a Worker Encourages Reckless Corporate Behavior
Sentiment is building to tax excessive CEO pay at public companies
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Reports
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Greater Birmingham, AL, has experienced a resurgence in economic growth and civic engagement. Yet the benefits of this prosperity are not widely shared.
IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond
With our allies, we’ve prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia.
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
Our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy.
The Other Side of the Storm
What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of Covid-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure?