CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don’t respect their employees.
Read more
Racial & Gender Justice
Working to combat economic inequality, achieve climate justice, and build peace requires solutions designed to dismantle systemic racism and patriarchy. That’s why all of our projects seek to intersect and achieve justice across gender, diversity, and race, in addition to class.
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.
Read more
The Supreme Court Needs to Protect Trans People from Discrimination
“I wasn’t hired because I am trans. And in more than half the country—twenty-nine states, in fact —that’s perfectly legal.”
Read more
Don’t Leave Equality to the Supreme Court
In 29 states, trans people can legally be denied jobs and housing because of who we are. Congress should act.
Read more
In Mass Shootings, Motive Matters
If we omit the El Paso shooter’s motive, we risk erasing the victims — minimizing them to footnotes in the coverage of yet another mass shooting.
Read more
400 Years After Slavery, No More Band-Aids
It’s time to heal the deep wounds of racism — not only to ensure equity for African Americans, but for our entire economy.
Read more
What It’s Like to Grow Up Hunted
When I was just 10, I already knew what it was like to plan for a future without my parents.
Read more
Trump’s Public Charge Rule Is an Attack on Legal Immigrants
After demonizing undocumented immigration, Trump’s new public charge rule targets legal immigrants on the basis of income and race.
Read more
Mass Shootings, Economic Inequality, and a Racist President
Three mass shootings in one week, homelessness abound, and a liar who hurls racist rhetoric from the White House stoop. America needs a course correction.
Read moreIPS Projects
Reports
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live
Report: Dreams Deferred
How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide