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
Trickle-Up Economics: New Report Reveals Staggering Global Wealth Concentration
A new business study on global household wealth documents how the world’s wealth is continuing to concentrate in the pockets of the awesomely affluent.
Are Corporate Titans Really Worth the Billions They Suck In?
Is the labor of corporate CEOs really hundreds of times more valuable than the labor of other leaders?
Wal-Marts Sustainability Initiative: A Civil Society Critique
Critiques of Wal-Mart’s approach to sustainability, responding to a bold initiative to turn the world’s largest company green.
Are CEOs worth that much more?
The huge pay gap only makes sense if CEOs add hundreds of times more value than other leaders in society.
Strategic Corporate Initiative
Toward a global citizens’ movement to bring corporations back under control
Executive Excess 2007
IPS’ 14th Annual CEO Compensation Survey on The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership.
Despite the Mortgage Crisis, Hedge Funders Are Still Raking It In
The little guys may be hurting, but fear not for the titans of capital.
Latin America Rising: U.S. Role Turned Upside Down
Latin America is leading a historic break from the failed policies of the International Monetary Fund.

The Moral Measure of the Economy
Measures the U.S. economy against gospel values.
Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Was a Great World Bank President
Progressives should think twice before rejoicing over Wolfie’s departure.
Reports

Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction

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
