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
Where are the Women CEOs? Should We Care?
Women CEOs are becoming slightly less rare at large corporations. But simply replacing men with women at the top of the income scale won’t lead to greater equity.
The War on Woke Is a Scam on Middle America
The MAGA bargain goes something like this: If we hurt other people worse, is it ok if we hurt you, too?
How Investors Accelerate the Affordable Housing Crisis
Investor purchases accounted for 24 percent of all residential real estate sales in Boston in the fourth quarter of 2022. A 10 percent tax on those sales could yield $82 million in revenue.
Free Trade or Just Green Trade?
Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save the planet.
Biden’s Budget Would Level the Playing Field and Reduce the Deficit
The president’s plan for jobs, families, and health reflects the things most of us value. But it should spend more on those and less on the Pentagon.
Criminalization of Poverty Program at IPS’s Statement on President Biden’s Budget
“As an expression of values, its proposals to invest in families and workers, protect Social Security, and strengthen Medicare reflect the values of most of us.”
How to Persuade a Billionaire
The newly formed Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute envisions a world of shared prosperity, where ultra-high net worth individuals join in the struggle for economic justice.
After 20 Years, the Department of Homeland Security Is a Money-Guzzling Failure
Twenty years ago this month, the U.S. government took a sharp turn toward surveillance, racial profiling, and an immigration policy based on fear. In March 2003, the newly christened Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, opened its doors. The department took...
Cuts to SNAP Benefits Will Push Millions Over the Hunger Cliff
This is a critical moment for our nation. We must not allow struggling workers or our children, grandparents and disabled loved ones to fall back into hunger.
Más de 220 organizaciones piden a Gustavo Petro y Francia Márquez revisar los tratados de inversión internacional que permiten millonarias demandas contra el Estado colombiano
“Es urgente la necesidad de impedir que la búsqueda de justicia ante abusos de multinacionales, daños y pasivos socioambientales, laborales, financiación del paramilitarismo, amenazas o asesinato de líderes sindicales se vea saboteada por este sistema.”
Reports
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
Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy
White Supremacy is the Preexisting Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
