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
How the Estate Tax Benefits Small Businesses
Don’t let opponents of the estate tax frighten you.
Remembering George Steinbrenner
His flaws far outweighed any public virtue he might have possessed.
A Bitter Taste of Racial Discrimination
While pundits and politicos were vilifying Shirley Sherrod for an act of discrimination that didn’t occur, Senate Republicans cut the payments for thousands of official acts of actual discrimination against African-American farmers.
There’s Still Big Money in War
If there is one thing that the whole world can agree on, it’s that we already have too many warheads, but that doesn’t deter the companies that make them.
Compassionate Conservatives
They’re only compassionate when it comes to rich white folks.
Dying Patients Deserve Better
The majority of terminally ill patients would have a better quality of life in their remaining days if they were left alone.
The Lineup: Week of August 2-8, 2010
This week’s editorial package features an op-ed and a cartoon on the WikiLeaks controversy.
Evidence of a Failed Mission
WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary just fills in details of what we already knew: The Afghanistan War is too costly to continue.
No Message on the Bottle
Bottlers need to label the source of their water and provide honest information on their bottles instead of making spurious marketing claims.
Multinational Shell Game Hurts Local Business
Tax havens create a fundamentally unlevel playing field between multinational corporations with overseas tax havens and local Main Street businesses.