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

Trump Breaks Promise on Medicare, Other Safety Net Programs

Trump promised to keep his hands off of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security—while also trying to cut them to pieces.

A Silicon Valley Life Lesson: Money that ‘Clumps’ Crushes

A new civic group report is calling living conditions ‘harsh’ in California’s high-tech hotspot.

Trump’s 2021 Budget Cuts Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Increases Foreign Military Aid

The president’s 2021 budget aims to cut funding for an already struggling State Department by $1.5 billion, and slash humanitarian aid by nearly 40 percent.

Trump’s 2021 Budget Keeps Ignoring the Climate Crisis

A reframing of our national priorities is overdue—it’s well past time to put people and planet over the Pentagon.

Who’s Afraid of ‘Socialism’?

Americans were taught to associate “socialism” with dictatorship and “capitalism” with democracy. Are those days over?

Trump’s 2021 Budget Cuts All Federal Agencies—Except Militarized Ones

This year and beyond, it’s time to resist this militarized agenda and promote a moral budget that rises to the urgent crises of our time.

Trump’s 2021 Budget Is Not Only Immoral — It’s Also Unaffordable

Progressive proposals are always met with affordability questions. Those same questions must be put to conservatives, starting with Trump’s 2021 budget.

Trump’s 2021 Budget Gives 55 Percent to the Military

Congress won’t pass the president’s 2021 budget proposal as is, but it’s clear Trump wants to boost military spending while divesting from everything else.

Taxing Wealth Emperors in the Empire State

The Strong For All coalition is pressing for higher taxes on the very rich rather than austerity budget cuts that hit the non-wealthy.

Understanding Socialism and Democratic Socialism Today

James Early and E. Ethelbert Miller explore the historical context and development of socialism and democratic socialism.

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: Who is Buying Seattle?

Chuck Collins | October 11, 2019

The deep and persistent racial wealth divide will not close without bold, structural reform.

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, Josh Hoxie, Helen Flannery | 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

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

Ten Violations that Should Prompt Its Removal

Report: Pay, Professionalism, and Respect

Marc Bayard, Kimberly Freeman Brown | 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, Josh Hoxie, Helen Flannery | July 25, 2018

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

Report: Students Under Siege

Karen Dolan, Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, 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, Josh Hoxie, Jessicah Pierre | May 8, 2018

Taxing Wealth to Fund College for All in California

Report: CEO-Worker Pay Ratios in the Banking Industry

Sarah Anderson, Bartlett Naylor | 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.