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
Care Workers Are Not Giving up on Build Back Better
Over 35,000 people joined a recent telephone town hall to kick off a six-week campaign to protect investments in the care economy.
Taxing Extreme Wealth Could Lift 2.3 Billion People Out of Poverty
Extreme inequality is the preexisting condition that made our society more vulnerable to disease and undermined a robust global public health response.
Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
A new analysis by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking rise in global wealth among the world’s richest people despite deepening inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
A new joint report from Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires details what can be funded by simply taxing the rich.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Internationalist Vision is More Crucial Than Ever
On MLK Day this year, it’s worth remembering not just King’s sharp diagnosis of American society’s ills, but also his prescription for transformative social change.
Student Debt Cancellation is a Racial Justice Issue
Presidential executive action to cancel up to $50,000 in student debts would increase Black wealth by 40 percent.
Dr. King Remained Hopeful. So Can We.
King’s “Testament of Hope” sounds as relevant today as the day it was published.
College Football Coaches Making $25,000 a Day? Let’s Sideline This Lunacy!
The gridiron game has a penalty for illegal holding. We need one for hoarding.
Worshiping Markets, Genuflecting to Grand Fortune
Today’s ‘utopians’ have reserved heaven on Earth for the richest among us.
A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax
But our only quarter-trillionaire is still not paying anything close to his fair tax share.
Reports
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
The Other Side of the Storm
Bay State Billionaires
Executive Excess 2022
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
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
