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
Pressure Mounts on Biden to Take Action on Student Loan Debt
Executive action to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt would increase Black wealth by 40 percent.
New Data Tells Us Where Donor-Advised Fund Dollars Go—And Don’t Go
A new research database reveals that many donor-advised fund donations take years to make it to the coffers of operating nonprofits.
From France, an Unexpected Call for a Ceiling on CEO Pay
Our modern societies, top French politicos fear, just might ‘explode’ without one.
A Historic Deal for Union Doormen
After servicing New York City’s wealthiest throughout the pandemic, 32,000 residential workers refused to accept a regressive new contract.
Crypto Is a Risky Bet for Black Americans
There are better ways to close the racial wealth gap while giving a leg up to Americans of every color.
Auto Workers, Climate Groups Team Up to Demand Union-Made, Electric Postal Vehicles
The United Auto Workers and climate groups join together to push the USPS to buy electric postal vehicles to replace their old, gas-guzzling fleet.
An Oligarchy Expert Answers Our Questions About Wealth and Empowerment
Northwestern professor Jeffrey Winters says he knows how to get billionaires to jump off the Forbes list of richest Americans.
Ousted Pakistani Leader Was Challenging Investment Treaties That Give Corporations Excessive Power
Mexico and many other countries are facing anti-democratic corporate lawsuits like the case that pushed Khan to withdraw from international investment agreements.
Still Another Reason for Taxing the Rich
America’s wealthiest, new ProPublica data suggest, may be even richer than we thought.
A Pandemic of the Poor
As we approach 1 million COVID-19 deaths, Americans in poorer counties have died at double the rate of wealthier counties.
Reports
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
Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020
