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

Reopening the Economy Is a Death Sentence for Workers

The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

It’s Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus

To unlock billions in charitable resources during this crisis, Congress should double the mandated payout of private foundations and donor-advised funds.

Fossil Fuel Bailouts Are Class War. This Is How We Fight Back

When it comes to distributing financial support, the federal government should be propping up those who need it most.

A For-Profit Postal Service Would Slam Small Businesses

Trump’s push to privatize USPS would devastate the ordinary Americans who rely on the Postal Service.

America’s Biggest CEOs Last Year Said They Cared About Us All. They Lied.

America’s corporate dividend cascade is revealing the emptiness of the top exec pledge to value workers, not just shareholders.

If Small Businesses Aren’t Essential, Neither Is Collecting Rent

Without rent and mortgage relief, millions of families and smaller landlords could lose their homes and businesses.

How to Get $200 Billion for COVID-19 Relief — at No Cost to Taxpayers

We need an emergency charity stimulus and taxpayers have subsidized one, but the $200 billion in funds remain sidelined.

Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus

Congress can help nonprofits come up with an additional $200 billion — without costing taxpayers another dime.

Maine Can’t Afford to Have the Postal Service Fail

Only USPS has the capacity to provide the affordable delivery needed by our state, with its large share of senior and rural residents.

Slaughterhouses Aren’t Just for Cattle, Hogs, and Poultry Anymore. Add People.

A powerful industry is making workers choose between their lives and their jobs.

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: The Road to Zero Wealth

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Josh Hoxie, Emanuel Nieves | September 11, 2017

How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

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.