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

The Deep-Pocket Push to Deep-Six Public Schools

The backstory to the showdown in Los Angeles between teachers and billionaires.

The Government Shutdown Expands the Ranks of ‘Underwater Nation’

Unemployment is low, but federal employees are lining up at food banks. They aren’t alone.

A Dream Deferred: MLK’s Dream of Economic Justice Is Far From Reality

90 years after King was born, the racial wealth divide is actually growing — which drags down the entire economy.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Plan Can Get The Rich To Actually Want To Make All Americans Richer. Here’s How.

Linking the top tax rate to minimum wage could be the key to incentivizing wealthy Americans to shrink income inequality.

It’s Time for T.S.A. Workers to Strike

The shutdown is painful, but it is also an opportunity for labor to take a stand.

Will the Longest Shutdown in US History End in a Power Grab?

If Trump declares a national emergency, he can fund his wall against the wishes of Democrats. Will he?

Report: Dreams Deferred

How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Democratic Leaders Failed Their First Big Test on Climate

Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington.

Trump’s $5 Billion Wall Is a Waste

Here’s what we could spend it on instead.

Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Immigration Speech

The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing?

Black Worker Initiative

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Drug Policy

Global Economy

Inequality.org

Program on Inequality and the Common Good

National Priorities Project

Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Reports

Report: Dreams Deferred

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Josh Hoxie | January 13, 2019

How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Report: Gilded Giving 2018

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie | November 19, 2018

Top-Heavy Philanthropy and Its Risks to the Independent Sector

Report: Agricultural Cooperatives

Michael Paarlberg | November 8, 2018

Opportunities and Challenges for African American Women in the South

Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines

Catherine Coumans, John Cavanagh, Rico La Vina, Robin Broad | October 29, 2018

Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal

Report: Pay, Professionalism, and Respect

Kimberly Freeman Brown, Marc Bayard | October 5, 2018

Black Domestic Workers Continue the Call for Standards in the Care Industry

Report: Towering Excess

Chuck Collins, Emma de Goede | September 10, 2018

The Perils of the Luxury Real Estate Boom for Bostonians

Executive Excess 2018

Sarah Anderson | August 28, 2018

How Taxpayers Subsidize Giant Corporate Pay Gaps

Report: Warehousing Wealth

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie | July 25, 2018

Donor-Advised Charity Funds Sequestering Billions in the Face of Growing Inequality

Report: Students Under Siege

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, Karen Dolan, Myacah Sampson | July 24, 2018

How the school-to-prison pipeline, poverty, and racism endanger our school children

Report: Restoring Opportunity in California

Chuck Collins, Jessicah Pierre, Josh Hoxie | May 8, 2018

Taxing Wealth to Fund College for All in California

Report: CEO-Worker Pay Ratios in the Banking Industry

Bartlett Naylor, Sarah Anderson | April 26, 2018

A decade after the crash, excessive pay is still a problem at the mega-banks and the 2nd-tier firms that stand to benefit from the current deregulation push.