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
Colombia Free Trade Deal Could Boost Cocaine Exports
There’s only one Colombian industry that can potentially employ workers who would lose their job in the wake of a free trade deal.
Bachmann May Surprise Us Yet
Republican primary voters like weird, and when it comes to weird, Rep. Michele Bachmann tops the list.
Are You Ready for a Brave New World of Food?
Despite the “yuck” factor, many bugs pack a protein punch that’s healthier than steak and far lighter on the environment.
Arab Spring Forecast
It’s raining bullets in Libya, with cold hearts prevailing in Oman.
America’s Housing Paradox
There’s money to bail out the banks but not to bail out the homeless.
The Lineup: Week of April 25-May 1, 2011
William A. Collins puts the Libya intervention in context and a cartoon depicts a retirement home for dictators.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: Writing Our Own Economic Future
My neighbors and I know we can’t go back to the old economy. But what can we do to build a new one?
Same Old from the Nuclear Gang after Fukushima
Wishful thinking about energy generation has apparently induced both temporary blindness and long-term amnesia.
America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System
Even if Obama’s overhaul works as planned, there will still be 23 million Americans lacking health insurance in 2019.
Want to Cut Federal Spending? Go Where the Money Is.
We can trim the Pentagon’s budget without sacrificing national security.