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

Sick of Outrageously Excessive CEO Compensation?
If you care about health, you certainly should be.

Red Cup Rebellion Redux: A Q&A with Starbucks Workers United
“You are making $15 an hour when your boss is making that in a breath.”

VIDEO: How Wealthy Donors Warehouse Charitable Funds “for Generations”
At Scripps News, Chuck Collins breaks down the true cost of billionaire philanthropy — and how to put charitable donations back in the hands of actual charities.

Our Rich: Fooling Themselves and Fouling Our Planet
Electric air taxis aren’t going to save the world. Really taxing the rich, on the other hand, could.

Pentagon Fails Its Sixth Audit
Every year that members of Congress vote for budget boosts to this agency with no strings attached, they choose to spend untold billions on war with no accountability.

Revealing the True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy
How the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence — while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill.

The Climate Justice Shot Heard ‘Round the World: No New Private Jet Infrastructure
If activists succeed in stopping the Hanscom expansion, it will be the next “shot heard ’round the world” on a warming planet.

Patriotic Millionaires to High Court: Don’t Preempt Taxing Grand Fortune
A wrong decision in the Moore case could set back tax justice for years.

The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy: How the Taxpayer Subsidizes Stockpiled Wealth
Our report estimates that the direct taxpayer subsidy for charitable giving is $111 billion a year.

Building Cleaners Rally for Fair Wages and Life-Saving Benefits
A Q&A with a veteran building cleaner on what’s at stake for her workplace, her union, and her city’s working class.
Reports

REPORT: The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy

REPORT: Hanscom High Flyers

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
