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
Retired Dictators
Welcome, Muammar.
An Eye-Opening Window into America’s Executive Suites
A cutting-edge new Web site, from the nation’s labor movement, offers working Americans the information we need to understand CEO pay excess – and the tools we need to fight it.
Seven Innovative Mechanisms of Development Finance
As governments look for new options for public revenue stream, this table by IPS Global Economy project director Sarah Anderson shows which options can be considered, their potential revenue, and their administrative and political feasibility.
The Lineup: Week of April 18-24, 2011
Our Earth Day special edition features three commentaries and a cartoon addressing Obama’s “dirty energy” policy and the BP oil disaster, as well as the dangers of nuclear weapons and reactors.
Obama’s Dirty Energy Fixation
As radioactivity levels continue to spike in Fukushima, Obama’s support for nuclear power is unwavering.
Learning from the BP Oil Disaster
Although every major oil company operating in deep water around the world had guaranteed that it could handle a blowout, not a single one knew what to do.
Volunteer Writers May Be Part of Journalism’s Future
HuffPo writers need not only a platform–but cash as well.
A Year after Arizona’s Debacle, Congress Considers a Better Immigration Law
The SUCCEED Act would help immigrants integrate into American society.
Finally, Obama Leads on the Deficit
In 1993, President Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress raised taxes and lowered the deficit, at which point the economy took off and produced a budget surplus for the final four years of his presidency.