Community Engagement

Our work is informed by the leadership of affected communities, which is why we do much of it in cities and other localities. We are delving deep into local initiatives to battle economic inequality, help expand the sanctuary movement, organize black workers, and take a human rights approach to criminal justice. Our community-based work is done through partnership with movement building allies on the ground.

Latest Work

A Main Street Fix to Wall Street’s Failure

Building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate, our new report looks at the structural issues behind the economic crisis and how we can transition to a new economy based on Main Street.

A Main Street Jobs Agenda

Putting more money in the hands of those who already have jobs so they can buy more Chinese imports does very little to put Americans to work in good jobs that pay good wages.

How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation

In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.

Occupy Wall Street, 1979 Edition

Before there were hashtags, 32 years ago, more than a thousand protesters tried to shut Wall Street down for a day.

A New Set of Tools for Measuring Economic Progress

Maryland’s GPI assesses what’s left behind when the state’s economy officially expands.

Measuring Progress

Maryland’s government is embracing an alternative way to monitor the state’s wellbeing called the Genuine Progress Indicator, which brings depth to the analysis of the state’s economic growth.

Occupy Wall Street’s Deep Roots

If Howard Zinn were alive today, he’d be writing a new chapter right now.

The Dawning of GDP’s Hegemony

When the Great Depression hit, Congress lacked any tools with which to accurately measure just how the economy as a whole was faring.

Occupy DC: My Speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The chamber helps the “built-to-loot” companies.

Think Tanks on the Right and Left Agree: Corporate Tax Holidays Lead to Layoffs, Not Jobs

Left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies and right-leaning Heritage Foundation release the same report findings on the same day: Corporations that claimed tax holidays in 2004 pocketed the cash and downsized workers.