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
Bush-Style Military Spending Not Over Yet
Obama’s plans for change in defense spending are still mostly unrealized.
Thanksgiving: Time to Consider Native Americans’ Plight
The nation needs to commit itself to lasting Native American advancement.
Challenges to Native American Advancement: The Recession and Native America
Despite some growth, many disparities remain among indigenous Americans.
Stupak Amendment
It’s the mysogyny, Stupak!
United States of Prohibition
Because law and order reign supreme.
Health Care Reform
The public option is the Democrats’ fig leaf.
Nation’s ‘Pay Czar’ Largely Impotent
Is the administration really curbing bloated CEO pay?
Cuban Embargo: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Will Obama follow precedent when it comes to Cuba?
Our Choice: Control Carbon or Be Cooked
Our leaders are willing to control our fossil fuel economy but not to embark on a serious program to disarm it.
General McMoreland in Vietistan
The White House and the Pentagon should heed lessons learned in the past.
Reports
REPORT: A Tale of Two Retirements 2023
Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet
Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise”
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
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
