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
Newt’s Campaign Implosion
Gingrich proves again that “his friends hate him.”
Cut Wall Street Down to Size With a Financial Speculation Tax
A financial speculation tax might not have stopped those greed-crazed fools, but at least Uncle Sam would’ve taken in about $1.1 billion on the deals.
Pawlenty’s Tax Proposal Caters to the Richest Americans
He sure knows how to mark an anniversary
Conversations with Great Minds Features Chuck Collins
Income disparity in America has changed the country over the last half a century – a conversation about what has happened, and why it matters.
Nurses Join Call to “Tax Wall Street”
A swarm of around a thousand nurses in scarlet scrubs descended on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in downtown Washington to call for a new economic agenda.
Explosive Nuclear Spending
How about shifting the $1 trillion per decade the world spends on nuclear weapons to more important priorities?
The Lineup: Week of June 6-12, 2011
Donald Kaul says Jon Huntsman isn’t likely to clinch the GOP presidential nomination and Jim Hightower wonders what it will take for the Catholic Church to recognize the severity of its pedophilia problem.
America’s Nuclear Spent-Fuel Time Bombs
Japan’s nuclear disaster should serve as a wake-up call for the United States.
Don’t Cut Head Start
Congress is debating whether to slash more than $1 billion from Head Start to give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to the richest Americans and corporations.
The SEC’s Revolving Door
The agency is too cozy with the financial industry it oversees.