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
Paying Ransom to Corporate Pirates Won’t Create Jobs
Congress should put an end to the piracy that continues to ship U.S. profits abroad for the express purpose of avoiding U.S. federal taxes.
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 10-16, 2011
Sarah Anderson and Chuck Collins explain why Congress shouldn’t give a tax break to corporations that hoard profits in overseas tax havens
Job Destroyers Don’t Deserve a Tax Holiday
When thinks tanks from the left and the right agree on something, Congress should pay attention.
How to Achieve Transparency for the Supercommittee
Every campaign contribution to members of this powerful panel should be reported every single day.
Mitt Romney Believes in Corporate America
He chooses to ignore that even as corporate profits soar and the rich get richer, unemployment remains high and millions of Americans are tumbling from the middle class into poverty.
Military Spending Belongs on the Table
The supercommittee seems unlikely to make substantial military cuts and instead quite likely to cut spending for the other agencies under the “security spending” umbrella, even though the Pentagon gets the lion’s share of that category’s funding.
Gridlock and Bedlam
It’s scary, but I’m starting to agree with my pessimist friend.
Big Oil: $135 Million — School Children: 0
Led by Valero Energy Corp., at least 16 huge refiners are trying to poke a lucrative loophole into Texas tax laws.
Dr. National and Mr. Transnational
Pay my fair share of taxes? What is this, socialism?
What Have They Done with Ron Paul?
The mainstream media mostly ignores him.