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
Planet CEO vs. Planet Worker
Realigning the interests of CEOs with their employees and the rest of our country would be good for the economy and national morale.
Know-Nothing Party
Attacks by arch-conservative politicians on the Department of Education are flying under the media radar.
Jobs Emergency
The best way to address budget deficits is to put people back to work so they can pay their share of taxes.
Egg Recall Reveals our Broken Food System
The best way to prevent outbreaks of this magnitude is to encourage smaller and regionally dispersed production.
Setting the Record Straight
What we have in place of ideology is single-issue politics.
A Gentler Name for Psychic Warfare
The Pentagon’s new even-boring name for it is Military Information Support Operations (MISO).
Riled West
There’s just too much corn and coal.
Pumped CEOs
These top executives are so pumped up.
Surfing in Style through the Great Recession
American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs.
CEO Pay More Than Doubled Last Year
Sarah Anderson goes on Fox 5 DC to discuss the new Executive Excess report.