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
This Land Is Their Land
In the era of the superrich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can’t afford to be there.
We Need a New NAFTA
The political debate over the trade deal is long overdue.
Three Amigos Summit
The NAFTA-expanding Security and Prosperity Partnership is too cozy with big business.
Despite Failures, CEOs Cash In
The problem of excessive pay is not being fixed, even for the top executives of companies in distress.
Busting Paranoid Right-Wing Fantasies of Dissolving the Mexico-U.S.-Canada Borders
Expanding NAFTA is wrong, but not because of a mythical North American Union.
The Economic Side of MLK’s Dream
We’re not much closer to the promised land than we were at the time of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination.
40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream
Economic inequality between African Americans and whites is still at the foundation of racial inequality.
U.S.: 40 Years in the Wilderness
Four decades after his death, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words tragically speak to our current reality.
Trade Issues Are Not Just About NAFTA and the Rust Belt
We need to shift from a “Wal-Mart economy” to one built on dignified jobs and healthy communities.
The Great Reckoning Is Here
A corrosive problem lies at the root of our economic instability: our society and economy are rapidly polarizing.
Reports
Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
How U.S. Trade Policy Failed Workers — And How to Fix It
Reimagining School Safety
Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy
White Supremacy is the Preexisting Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020
Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
Report: Agricultural Cooperatives
