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 Squad’ Keeps the Focus on Bold, Inequality-Busting Policies
Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley fight hard for their constituents in the face of racist attacks.
The Racist History of Tipping
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour by 2024.
A Trump Plan to Throw 55,000 Children Out of Their Homes
A proposed rule would strip housing benefits from U.S. citizens if they’re found to have family members with the wrong immigration status.
How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis — And How to Fix it
An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service’s ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal service.
A Bus Tour Pushes For Higher Taxes on the Rich
Tax cuts have funneled wealth to the richest for decades. Activists have convened a nationwide bus tour to prove how unpopular those tax policies have been.
Behold the 21st-Century Penthouse: Peak Decadence?
From the summit of our new ‘needle towers,’ the ultra rich can look but never really see.
My Parents Proudly Worked for the US Postal Service. Don’t Destroy It.
African Americans have the most to lose from Postal Service cuts and the most to gain from innovative reforms that help the poor, like postal banking.
Will San Francisco Be the Second City to Tax Extreme CEO-Worker Pay Gaps?
SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times median worker pay.
Return of the Poll Tax
Florida’s anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters — and hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Wild Political Backstory to the Financial ‘Crisis’ at the Postal Service
Budget chicanery more than 15 years ago laid the foundation for a manufactured crisis that threatens the future of the postal service.