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
Remembering Ronni
In 1976, Ronni Karpen Moffitt was killed on her way to work as the car she was riding in succumbed to a car bomb planted by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Elders’ Safety Net Could Fray After Nov. 2
Privatizing Social Security would be a trick, not a treat.
Immigrant Youth in Limbo
Passing the DREAM Act would allow deserving youth to become productive members of society.
Game Time for New START
Despite the near-unanimous support for the treaty by prominent experts, most Republicans have yet to take a position on the arms control pact.
Beck’s Civil Rights Delusion
You don’t start an historic movement just by getting a few clowns up on a stage and waving a flag.
Slashing Food Stamps Makes No Sense
Congress should get the money for its jobs bill by taxing the multibillion-dollar bonuses that Wall Street bankers are paying out to themselves.
MLK’s Shoes
I have a delusion!
Class Struggle
Improving America’s schools requires tackling poverty, a major underlying cause of weak education.
Reining in Executive Pay
The landmark financial reform legislation passed in July includes reforms advocated for years by those who believe that empowering shareholders will clean up the executive pay mess.
The Lineup: Week of September 6-12, 2010
Our latest editorial package includes an op-ed by Jason Salzman about the tea party’s desire to scrap the Department of Education.