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 Year in Inequality in 10 Charts
Our economic and racial divides grew even wider in 2021, but there are signs of hope for a more equitable future.
Against Plutocrats, Platitudes — About Democracy — Will Always Be Pitiful
The Biden administration’s democracy initiative is missing the all-important inequality connection.
Fact Sheet: A Moral Budget Versus a War Budget
Build Back Better and the National Defense Authorization Act represent diametrically opposed views of how to address the challenges of our time: a moral budget vs a war budget. Congress: Which side are you on?
How Do We Fix Abuses of Donor-Advised Funds?
Donor-advised funds are set up to provide more benefit to their wealthy donors than to public charities. We can fix that.
Might Starbucks Soon Start Sharing the Bucks?
Baristas in Buffalo are mounting the coffee giant’s most significant union challenge yet.
Democrats Need to Stop Scaling Back Build Back Better, and Pass the Bill Right Now
The Democrats’ main vulnerability right now is that voters simply have no idea they’re trying to do popular things.
Columbia’s Student Workers Fight for a Fair Contract
Student workers keep Columbia University running, yet many struggle to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the country.
What’s That ‘Surtax’ Doing in Build Back Better?
Congress may soon be delivering America’s awesomely affluent an unpleasant tax-time surprise.
Temporary Relief for Millions of Essential Immigrant Workers Could Be a Reality — Fingers Crossed
Immigrant rights advocates continue to pressure elected officials to make good on their campaign promises for a pathway to citizenship.
To Curb Inflation, Pass Biden Plan
The bill helps Americans get good jobs and afford food, housing, health care and child care — a strong response to inflation.
Reports
REPORT: A Tale of Two Retirements 2023
Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet
Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
The Other Side of the Storm
Bay State Billionaires
Executive Excess 2022
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
