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
A Decade of Magical Tax-Cut Thinking
The 2001 Bush tax cuts added $2.5 trillion to the national debt and disproportionately benefited the wealthiest households. Have we learned anything?
Mobile Mugging
If AT&T is allowed to acquire T-Mobile, just two wireless giants will control nearly 80 percent of the nation’s cellphone market.
Stop Investing in Sexism
Boards without any women make bad corporate stewards.
A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
The U.S.-Colombia free trade pact would reinforce a system that leaves farmers and consumers at the mercy of volatile prices and markets.
Israel’s Third-Rail Borders
It doesn’t take a stooge or a Nazi to take Israel’s 1967 borders as a no-brainer.
Academic Freedom for Sale–Cheap
For only $1.5 million, a Koch brother bought a big chunk of the economics department of Florida State University.
Chugging Down the Wrong Track
The nation’s sick health care system is killing too many Americans.
Big Bad Free Trade Accord
How come your teeth are so long, Grandma?
A Case Study for Why We Need a Stiff Estate Tax
The recluse Huguette Clark was a poster child for the taxation of vast inherited fortunes.
We’re Not Broke, Just Twisted
Reversing tax giveaways to the super-rich and the nation’s largest corporations could raise $4 trillion within a decade and avert possible government closures.