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
Islamophobia is Un-American
A small coterie of highly vocal activists, using angry rhetoric and xenophobic propaganda, are stoking this rage.
NPR’s Stupid Situation
A string of high-profile blunders and trumped-up stings are endangering a key public and cultural institution.
Mickey Mouse Wage Hike
Why don’t Disney’s animators, performers, and other hard-working employees get a 45 percent increase in their pay, like the company’s CEO?
Torturers? Who, Us?
It’s time President Obama stopped protecting our war criminals.
Diagnosing a Military-Industrial Complex
What’s wrong with me, Doc?
Financial Transaction Taxes and the Global South
This downloadable pdf fact sheet answers frequently asked questions about the implications for the developing world of taxing financial speculation.
We Don’t Need to Shut Down the Government: Tax the Wealthy and Deadbeat Corporations to Close Budget Gaps
If corporations and households with $1 million income paid at the same levels they did in 1961, the Treasury would collect an additional $716 billion a year.
Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown
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.
The Lineup: Week of April 4-10, 2011
This week, we’ve got three Tax Day op-eds and a cartoon by Khalil Bendib lampooning GOP budget priorities.
Hey Congress, Want $400 Billion in New Annual Revenue?
Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the superrich and vast corporations.