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
We All Need Transit — Whether We Ride It or Not
Without public transit, I couldn’t have gotten my degree. And all of us need it to keep our planet livable.
COVID Relief: The Biggest Health Care Expansion in a Decade
The American Rescue Plan will help over 1 million uninsured Americans get covered — and cut premiums by half for millions more.
Taking on a Billionaire Landlord in the Twin Cities
Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.
No, The Rich Are Not Paying Their Fair Share
The share of the nation’s wealth pie owned by the richest 0.01 percent has quadrupled over the last 70 years.
How the CEO-Worker Pay Gap Deepens Income and Wealth Inequality
While working families are suffering under the pandemic, corporate boards have bent the rules to protect massive CEO paychecks.
Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Did America’s Greediest Corporation Just Become Greedier?
Recently added to the Walmart governing board: still another expert in enriching top execs at worker and taxpayer expense.
The Simple Rules of Wealth Inequality
The rich won’t be paying their fair share of taxes as long as our tax system speeds wealth’s concentration.
Biden’s Relief Package Is a Huge Victory for Workers
It’s one of the largest antipoverty programs ever passed — and will save worker pensions throughout the country.
New Report: Frist Family Pandemic Fortunes
Pandemic doubles wealth of private, for-profit hospital billionaire Thomas F. Frist Jr.’s family to $15.6 billion.
Reports
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
Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
