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
Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit
The 99 percent and the 0.001 percent agree on something, but the Obama administration is holding out.
The G20 and the New World Order
Signs of China’s growing influence are inescapable in Cannes.
Wealthy People Show Support for Protests with new website: “We are the 1 percent. We stand with the 99 percent.”
Resource Generation and Wealth for Common Good today announced a new website for wealthy people to show their support for the Occupy movement.
Rick Perry: Reverse Robin Hood
The Texas governor’s new plan is to give more money to the rich, but he says he “doesn’t care.”
OWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality
Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011
Deborah Burger calls for a new Wall Street tax and Libby Reinish reports on the quiet consolidation underway in the coverage of local TV news.
The Skinny on Farm Subsidies and Obesity
To make real, lasting improvements in our food system, we have to get to the root of the problem.
Welcoming Overdue Mercury Standards
It’s time for the EPA to stand up for kids.
Tax Wall Street to Heal America
The nation’s nurses are calling for a tax on financial transactions to begin raising the revenue needed to fix the nation’s growing social crisis.
The Great Local News Heist
Although the Internet has made it possible to access many diverse sources of news online, what’s missing is diverse coverage of what’s going on in our own backyards.