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
Poverty Made an Alarming Jump. Congress Should Have Stopped It.
It’s time for policymakers to listen to American workers and families instead of billionaires and corporate bosses.
America’s Auto Workers: On Strike Against Inequality. Again.
UAW activists years ago helped usher in a vastly more equal society. Can history repeat?
Poverty spiked sharply in the U.S. in 2022 after having declined in 2021
SPM data shows a historically steep increase of 4.6 percentage points from 7.8% to 12.4% . “The stark contrast paints a vivid picture of the ways in which poverty is a political choice, not a personal one.”
The Tie That Truly Binds Grand Fortune and Great Talent
Our world’s richest are increasingly monopolizing the smarts of our smartest.
More than Half of America’s 20 Top Public Charities Are Donor-Advised Funds
The highest-earning DAF now takes in $11 billion more than the highest-earning working charity.
Sixty Years Later, We Can Make King’s Dream a Reality
In our new report, “Still A Dream,” we note progress—alongside some humbling findings about how far we have to go.
Wealthy People Working for Justice? Michael Gast’s Map of an Unprecedented Movement
Exploring the burgeoning movement to organize the rich for our common good.
REPORT: Executive Excess 2023
These “Low Wage 100” large corporations are enriching CEOs at the expense of both workers and taxpayers.
Executive Excess 2023
New report finds the ‘Low-Wage 100’ large corporations have spent more than $340 billion on stock buybacks since 2020.
We Still Have a Dream
Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
Reports
REPORT: Executive Excess 2023
REPORT: Still A Dream: Over 500 Years to Black Economic Equality
REPORT: A Tale of Two Retirements 2023
Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet
Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
The Other Side of the Storm
Bay State Billionaires
Executive Excess 2022
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
Executive Excess 2021
Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
How U.S. Trade Policy Failed Workers — And How to Fix It
Reimagining School Safety
