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
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.
Foreign Investors Gone Wild
Leaders of developing countries are often forced to work with institutions that promote and protect foreign investment — with little regard for the costs to democracy and the environment.
Missing Words For The New Trade Debate
Democrats need to take an axe to the Bush Administration’s trade policies.
Selfish Interest
How much Business Roundtable CEOs stand to lose from real reform of runaway executive pay.
Challenging Corporate Investor Rule
How the World Bank’s investment court, free trade agreements, and bilateral investment treaties have unleashed a new era of corporate power and what to do about it.
Reports
Report: Gilded Giving 2022
The Other Side of the Storm
Bay State Billionaires
Executive Excess 2022
Report: Taxing the World’s Richest Would Raise $2.52 Trillion a Year
REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs
Executive Excess 2021
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
