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
Support Native Businesses This Holiday Season
Native American products enrich many corporations — but often not Natives themselves. We can change that.
Save the Minor Leagues
Driven by greed, Major League Baseball wants to kill 42 franchises in the towns that made baseball America’s pastime.
Boston One Step Closer to a Luxury Real Estate Transfer Tax
A proposed 2 percent transfer tax on residential and commercial properties worth over $2 million could raise $169 million for affordable housing annually.
Are America’s Rich Getting Tired of Winning Yet?
New stats from economist Gabriel Zucman dramatize how spectacularly lucrative the last half-century has been for America’s wealthiest.
Postal Pay Cuts Provoked a General Strike in Finland. US Postal Workers Deserve the Same Solidarity.
The Prime Minister resigned over the nationwide protests, catapulting a 34-year-old woman into Finland’s top job.
Danny Glover Supports Landmark Reparations Fund in Chicago Suburb
The Hollywood actor spoke at an Evanston townhall in support of a new policy to use revenue from marijuana legalization to narrow racial economic gaps.
We Need a Progressive Alternative on Trade — and NAFTA 2.0 Isn’t It
Twenty years after Seattle, we are still working towards a progressive trade agenda that protects people and planet.
Economic Inequality Has Gone Bananas
While duct-taped bananas are selling for over $100,000, the Trump administration is slashing SNAP benefits for 700,000 Americans.
A Holiday Comeback for Toys ‘R’ Us?
Retail workers are organizing to make sure private equity firms can’t make money by putting people out of work.
Trump’s New SNAP Cuts Amount to War on the Poor
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced plans to cut SNAP benefits that could drive millions further into poverty.
Reports
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
Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
Report: Agricultural Cooperatives
