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
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.
Washington Still Refuses to Learn an Obvious Lesson
With Osama bin Laden’s demise, it’s high time that our leaders realize that short-term gains from alliances with tyrannical regimes aren’t worth the long-term problems they foster.
Don’t Bet on Huntsman
Huntsman might be that magic Republican: one orthodox enough to win the GOP nomination but flexible enough to succeed in the general election. I wouldn’t bet on it.
The Sixties Made Me Do It
What is it about confession that the Catholic hierarchy can’t seem to grasp?
The SEC Foxes
For these suits going through the SEC’s revolving door, ethics rules are for the birds.
Education Is Universal but Unequal
If we want to preserve America’s status as a world leader, we had better start pouring money into preparing poor kids for leadership.