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
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Skyrocketed 55 Percent During Pandemic, Accelerating Inequality
Pandemic inequalities may explain the popularity of proposals to restore progressive income and wealth taxes on the very wealthy.
Employers: If You Want Workers, Pay a Living Wage
It’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little.
New Report: Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
Executive Excess 2021
Low-Wage Workers Lost Hours, Jobs, and Lives. Their Employers Bent the Rules — To Pump up CEO Paychecks.
House Dems Push Postal Banking Pilots as an Alternative to Predatory Firms
Thirty-three members have asked for federal budget funding to test out expanded postal financial services in 10 rural and urban communities.
Bill, Melinda, and the Burden of Grand Fortune
We can’t buy happiness, but greater equality could make it more likely.
The Man for the Moment Who Must Do More
Biden deserves praise for going big and bold on the economy. Let’s push him to go bigger and bolder.
Don’t Let the Rich Avoid Taxes
A progressive tax system is one of the few tools we can deploy to slow and reverse the growth of billionaire power.
Care Advocates Celebrate Big Wins in American Families Plan
Their mantra? Celebrate today. Organize tomorrow.
President Biden’s Tax-the-Rich Plan: Just How Bold?
A little history can help us with the answer.
Reports
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
Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020
Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
