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
![No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/medicare-for-all.jpg)
No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
![We Have The Money For A Green New Deal. We Just Waste It On Useless Wars.](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/military-spending-1080x675.jpg)
We Have The Money For A Green New Deal. We Just Waste It On Useless Wars.
For just over 10 percent of a single year’s military spending, we could build enough green electricity for every household in the country.
![Just 11 percent of the Military Budget Could Fund Renewable Energy for Every US Home](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/global_climate_strike_perth_200919_gnangarra-124-1080x675.jpg)
Just 11 percent of the Military Budget Could Fund Renewable Energy for Every US Home
Youth are demanding a Green New Deal and a sustainable economy. We can start by drastically reducing military spending and shifting defense funds toward renewable energy.
![Scientists Shouldn’t Listen to the Fossil Fuel Industry. Geoengineering is a Scam.](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/big-oil-geoengineering-1080x675.jpg)
Scientists Shouldn’t Listen to the Fossil Fuel Industry. Geoengineering is a Scam.
Oil and gas companies aren’t only polluting our air, water, and soil. They’ve injected themselves into our education system as well.
![About 100 Million Americans Are Effectively Hidden by Official Poverty Statistics](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/homeless-person-official-poverty-1080x675.jpg)
About 100 Million Americans Are Effectively Hidden by Official Poverty Statistics
Millions of us are living in poverty — we need investments to raise the standard of living.
![The GM Strike: A Century of Context](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/uaw-strike-1080x675.jpg)
The GM Strike: A Century of Context
In deeply unequal societies, real gains for working people never come easy.
![What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/money-college-inequality.jpg)
What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America
Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out.
![Immigration Is a Climate Issue](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/immigration-1080x675.jpg)
Immigration Is a Climate Issue
The United States, the top historic contributor to carbon emissions, has been treating climate refugees from its own pollution as threats. We can do better.
![Concentrated Wealth Kills](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/elderly-man-1080x675.jpg)
Concentrated Wealth Kills
Two new reports out of Washington trace our growing economic divide and the high price we pay, in dollars and lives, for letting that divide fester.
![The Perils of Billionaire Philanthropy](https://149358047.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/lots-of-money.jpg)
The Perils of Billionaire Philanthropy
The ultra-rich are using philanthropic vehicles to shield their wealth—it’s time Congress acted.