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
The COVID-19 Relief Deal is a Welcome Stopgap. Congressional Progressives Aim for Much More in 2021.
The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
Why Can’t CEOs Pay For Their Own 3-Martini Lunch?
Buried in the COVID relief deal is a provision that will require taxpayers to subsidize lavish business meals for corporate executives.
MacKenzie Scott’s Bold and Direct Giving Puts Shame to the Billionaire Class and Their Perpetual Private Foundations.
The billionaire philanthropist continues to defy the charitable norms of the 1 percent.
Biden’s Top Trade Official Should Work to Protect Governments From the Rising Number of Corporate Lawsuits
In 2020, foreign investors filed at least 51 known lawsuits demanding huge sums from governments struggling to fight a historic pandemic.
Celebrating the Passage of the Corporate Transparency Act
This week, Congress takes a meaningful step toward eliminating anonymous shell corporations.
Our Youngest ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire, Our Wealthy’s Oldest Bogus Claim
The super rich owe their super fortunes to factors that have little to do with ‘genius.’
Billionaire Made $1 Trillion Since COVID-19. They Can Afford to Protect Their Workers.
In a holiday shopping season with rampant rates of COVID-19 infection, we must protect frontline workers before it’s too late.
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surges Past $1 Trillion Since Beginning of Pandemic — Total Grows to $4 Trillion
The total wealth of U.S. billionaires reaches $4 trillion, over $1 trillion of which has been gained since the beginning of the pandemic.
Nothing Fundamental Will Change Without Mass Movements
Real change only happens, the New Deal era suggests, when a president’s ear is hearing the shouts of mass movements.
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
