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
Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
Across the Global South, international mining companies use disturbing tactics to forcibly open mining operations against the wills of local communities.
It Is Time to Levy a One-Time Pandemic Wealth Tax on Billionaires’ Windfall Gains
How we face this extraordinary inequality is the ultimate test of what kind of country we are and what we will become.
The Fox Is Still in the Henhouse at the Post Office
In the face of a historic public outcry, the postmaster general has promised to stop sabotaging essential services — temporarily.
Call the Victory Women
In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the COVID-19 crisis in its New American community.
Are USPS Cuts Motivated by Voter Suppression or Privatization — or Both?
The Postmaster General’s actions are advancing two of President Trump’s goals: undermining confidence in vote by mail and laying a foundation for postal privatization.
Twelve US Billionaires Have a Combined $1 Trillion
A disturbing milestone in the concentration of US wealth.
A Moment of Reckoning for Greed on the Gridiron
If college football programs at public universities can afford to pay their coaches millions of dollars a year, they can afford to do without our subsidies.
My Great-Grandfather Faced Danger as a Mail Carrier. He’d Be Shocked by Trump’s War on USPS.
Donald Trump’s mail slowdown upends a centuries-old work ethic and undercuts essential postal services during a pandemic, just when we need them most.
Military Recruiters Don’t Belong in High Schools
Military recruiters deliberately exploit the financial and social insecurities of teenagers to enlist more soldiers.
The Basic Case for a Wealth Tax
America’s 12 wealthiest now control $1 trillion of wealth. The only practical way to address this extreme wealth concentration: a tax on accumulated grand fortune.
Reports
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
Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020
