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

Trump’s 2021 Budget Is Not Only Immoral — It’s Also Unaffordable

Progressive proposals are always met with affordability questions. Those same questions must be put to conservatives, starting with Trump’s 2021 budget.

Trump’s 2021 Budget Gives 55 Percent to the Military

Congress won’t pass the president’s 2021 budget proposal as is, but it’s clear Trump wants to boost military spending while divesting from everything else.

Taxing Wealth Emperors in the Empire State

The Strong For All coalition is pressing for higher taxes on the very rich rather than austerity budget cuts that hit the non-wealthy.

Understanding Socialism and Democratic Socialism Today

James Early and E. Ethelbert Miller explore the historical context and development of socialism and democratic socialism.

Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair

U.S. life expectancy is up, but we still lag behind other developed countries. As the world’s most unequal developed nation, we shouldn’t be surprised.

Impeachment Couldn’t Depose Trump. Working Class Politics Can.

As impeachment fades to a footnote, Trump’s most effective critics won’t be rehashing Ukraine. They’ll be organizing workers.

Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit

Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity.

There’s No ‘Great American Comeback’

Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its roots?

In Blow to Privatizers, House Passes Postal Financial Relief

The bipartisan bill would ease financial challenges critics use to justify postal worker wage cuts and selling parts of USPS to for-profit corporations.

Progressive Experts Rebut Trump’s False Claims About Shared Prosperity

In his State of the Union address, the president made a poor attempt to conceal the continued rise in economic inequality under his administration.

Black Worker Initiative

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Drug Policy

Global Economy

Inequality.org

Program on Inequality and the Common Good

National Priorities Project

Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Reports

Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs

Sarah Anderson | August 30, 2017

This 24th annual report rebuts the GOP claim that slashing the corporate tax rate will lead to more and better jobs.

Report: Reversing Inequality

Chuck Collins | August 7, 2017

Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy

Report: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low Wage Workers

Sarah Anderson | March 15, 2017

The 2016 bonus pool held enough dollars to lift the pay of all of the country's more than 3 million servers up to $15 an hour.

Report: Gilded Giving

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie | November 16, 2016

Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality

Report: Combat Vs. Climate

Miriam Pemberton, Nathan Doctor, Ellen Powell | October 5, 2016

The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

Report: Ever-Growing Gap

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Josh Hoxie, Emanuel Nieves | August 8, 2016

Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries

Utilities Pay Up

Sarah Anderson, Janet Redman, Scott Klinger | July 19, 2016

How ending tax dodging by America's electric utilities can help fund a job-creating, clean energy transition.

Report: Mothers at the Gate

Karen Dolan, Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, Nell Bernstein | May 4, 2016

A movement of family members is developing around the country that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself.

Executive Excess 2015: Money to Burn

Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, Chuck Collins | September 2, 2015

This 22nd annual report reveals how CEO pay is accelerating climate change.