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
Wall Street Should Pay a Sales Tax, Too
Americans are used to paying sales taxes on basic goods and services, but when a Wall Street trader buys millions of dollars’ worth of stocks or derivatives, there’s no tax at all.
Ohio Proves It: Rehabilitation Works
The Buckeye State has reformed its juvenile justice system because it understands that “children have to be treated like children.”
Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich
This massive leak of transactions involving 214,488 offshore corporations, covering 40 years of activity, will boost the global movement to recapture trillions of the hidden wealth of nations.
General Electric to Pay Taxes: The Prank that Cost $3.5 Billion in Market Capitalization
Breaking from decades of aggressive tax avoidance, General Electric announced they will pay taxes in their future hometown…If only.
TurboTax is Lobbying to Make Filing Your Taxes More Difficult
A call to boycott the tax preparation companies spending millions making sure the tax code is overly complex.
Reactors Put Us at Risk for Nuclear Terrorism
Nuclear power plants are already rife with operational safety issues. Now security questions render them unacceptably perilous, too.
Nonviolent Offenders Shouldn’t Have to Die in Prison
Inmates on their deathbeds should be free to spend their final days with their loved ones.
The Treasury Department Could Help Block Offshore Tax Havens
Big Pharma company Pfizer is currently evading $40 billion in tax obligations and trying to make that permanent through a tax-dodging marriage with Irish firm Allergen.
What Does the One Percent Owe You?
A new interactive website is vividly showing just how much economic inequality is costing you.
Kasich is No Moderate on Inequality
Kasich tries to present himself as the moderate anti-Trump, but his time as governor has been marked by regressive tax reform that helps the rich and hurts the rest.