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
Dead Miners and Ethically Dead Senators
Here’s the perfect cure for lawmakers’ job grievances: Become coal miners for a while.
Jobs vs. War
Isn’t there some kind of law against panhandling?
Poverty on the March
In the name of thrift, Congress has chiseled unemployment, food stamps, housing, child care, and most other social services.
One Decade Down, One Decade Wasted
The 21st century has opened with ten years that have seen the vast majority of Americans go backward economically. Just-released Census stats tell that tale–but not the whole income story.
The Lineup: Week of September 27-October 3, 2010
Donald Kaul defends Keynes, Jim Hightower asks readers to help him overcome his loss for words, and William A. Collins shines a light on the government’s domestic surveillance programs.
Crisis as Opportunity
How is the Philippines responding to the “triple crises of vulnerability”: the global economic crisis, the food crisis and the spreading environmental crises of water, forests, fisheries and climate?
Leading the Way to a Smarter Future
People living in “transition” cities and towns are working together to make their communities more resilient to economic and environmental uncertainty.
From Death Row to Elusive Freedom
An exonerated former prisoner shares his story so that the United States may one day join the rest of the civilized world in abolishing the death penalty.
Remembering Ron Walters
His quiet demeanor belied a passionate and lifelong commitment to civil rights.
Strong Federal Safeguards Needed for Coal Ash
States have an inadequate or non-existent patchwork of rules, with many treating the toxic material like household garbage.