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
Pop Goes Our Anti-Poppy Policy in Afghanistan
Our troops are defending a country that routinely fuels America’s narcotics problem.
Whitman’s House
Billionaires in glass houses are castigating the employment of undocumented immigrants.
It’s Still Not Easy to Die Peacefully
Patients everywhere writhe in pain and indignity, families languish in grief, and physicians fidget in perplexity.
The Small Business Case for Ending Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
If Congress wants to help small businesses, they shouldn’t spend $700 billion over the next decade in poorly targeted tax cuts.
Water is Not for Sale: A Look at Italy’s Water Movement
In Italy, and across the world, local water must be administered for the common good of the community – il bene comune – and not treated as a market commodity.
Why Filipinos Should be Worried
The Philippines needs to become less vulnerable to the global economy and more rooted in local production for local consumption.
The Lineup: Week of October 11-17, 2010
Terry O’Neill reminds us that Alan Simpson is still co-chairing Obama’s deficit commission weeks after his unbelievable Social Security gaffe and Sam Pizzigati points out the government is redistributing wealth in a way that makes the rich richer.
Washington at Work–for the Wealthy
Uncle Sam is concentrating America’s wealth, not sharing it.
Four Hundred Thousand Reasons to Vote
Millions of women could be pushed out of the middle class and into poverty.
Rattling Democracy in Latin America
Ecuador’s recent crisis proves that a decisive and unified response from the international community can help determine the outcome of an illegitimate coup.