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
Unemployed for Life?
Millions of jobless Americans can’t get work precisely because they’re out of work.
Heroes of the Republic
You don’t have to support Stephen Colbert’s Super-PAC to earn this proud distinction.
A Perry Tale about the Prince of Privilege
Prince Rick wouldn’t be where he is without the steady “intrusion” of big government into his life.
We Need an Armistice in the War on Drugs
For the moment at least, we’re headed toward softening the penalties on marijuana and letting patients use it, while also reducing the obscene punishments for possessing crack cocaine.
Perry’s Feast
The trouble with this country is government largesse! Burp.
Plutocracy with a Pleasant Philanthropic Face
Not all plutocrats scheme in the shadows like the rabidly right-wing Koch brothers. We need to learn how to recognize plutocracy’s more subtle putches. The best primer? The battle over education’s future.
Jeff Immelt, GE CEO – Corporate Tax Dodger
If there were an Olympics for tax dodging, General Electric would sweep the gold. Last year GE reaped $3.3 billion in federal income tax refunds, despite more than $5 billion in U.S. profits
Ivan Seidenberg – Corporate Tax Dodger
Phone customers paid more to Uncle Sam than the telecom giant Verizon.
The Lineup: Week of Sept. 12-18, 2011
Raul A. Reyes explains why Rick Perry isn’t likely to garner much of the Latino vote
The Iraq War Isn’t Over
With too many Iraqi deaths and too many tax dollars, it’s still a “dumb war.”