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
Gubernatorial Goofiness in Maine
Gov. LePage’s rampage includes busting unions, rolling back child labor laws, gutting programs for the middle class and poor, and raising the retirement age for the state’s workers
Nukes: You Can Never Turn Your Back
The best way to protect ourselves from deadly radioactivity is to get rid of the stuff altogether.
Obama’s Nuclear GPS
The nuclear industry is driving us all off a cliff.
What Would Jesus Tax?
The prophetic Jesus would turn our head in different direction from the place where current budget and taxation decisions are focused.
Central America: ‘Deadliest Non-War Zone’
The Department of Defense has announced that Mexico will receive $51 million for fiscal year 2011. According to military officials the drug war has grown to rival the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We ask if throwing more money at the situation, or even more American troops, work? Institute for Policy Studies’ Sanho Tree explains.
Finally, Obama’s Talking about Taxing the Wealthy
He has public opinion on his side.
The Lineup: Week of April 11-17, 2011
John Feffer argues that the war on Libya shouldn’t translate into yet another budget increase for the Pentagon.
Libya War Is No Pentagon Lifeline
Let’s shrink our military footprint.
World War II’s Invisible Wounds
Mythologizing and romanticizing World War II ignores its complex legacy.
News Flash: Americans Aren’t Anti-Worker
Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media’s presumption that the opposite would be true.