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
Debt Boomerang
How Americans would benefit from cancellation of impoverished country debts.

Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (Second Edition)
A revised paberback following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America.

Taking Back the Corporation: A Mad as Hell Guide
Not so long ago, corporate America was widely respected. Not anymore. Taking Back the Corporation tells us how to take it back.
Executive Excess 2005
Defense contractors get more bucks for the bang.
AFTER the FTAA: Lessons from Europe for the Americas
With the talks for a free trade agreement for the entire Western Hemisphere on the brink of collapse, this report offers lessons from the EU for an alternative approach to integration.
Wal-Mart’s Pay Gap
Wal-Mart CEO compensation is 871 times as high as U.S. Wal-Mart worker pay; 50,000 times Chinese worker pay.

Field Guide to the Global Economy (Second Edition)
The Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy.

Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
Weaving personal narratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates and Collins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, not repeal.
Executive Excess 2004
Campaign Contributions, Outsourcing,
Unexpensed Stock Options and Rising CEO Pay
Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose
The tenth annual CEO pay survey.
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
