A proposed rule would strip housing benefits from U.S. citizens if they’re found to have family members with the wrong immigration status.
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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
How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis — And How to Fix it
An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service’s ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal service.
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A Bus Tour Pushes For Higher Taxes on the Rich
Tax cuts have funneled wealth to the richest for decades. Activists have convened a nationwide bus tour to prove how unpopular those tax policies have been.
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Behold the 21st-Century Penthouse: Peak Decadence?
From the summit of our new ‘needle towers,’ the ultra rich can look but never really see.
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My Parents Proudly Worked for the US Postal Service. Don’t Destroy It.
African Americans have the most to lose from Postal Service cuts and the most to gain from innovative reforms that help the poor, like postal banking.
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Will San Francisco Be the Second City to Tax Extreme CEO-Worker Pay Gaps?
SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times median worker pay.
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Return of the Poll Tax
Florida’s anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters — and hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The Wild Political Backstory to the Financial ‘Crisis’ at the Postal Service
Budget chicanery more than 15 years ago laid the foundation for a manufactured crisis that threatens the future of the postal service.
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We Need These Amendments to the 2020 NDAA
While we debate the enormous Pentagon budget, let’s also keep an eye on these four critical amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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IPS Projects
Reports
Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”
An annual wealth tax on the world’s richest could raise $1.7 trillion globally.
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.