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 You Can Help Build a More Just and Sustainable World Economy
Workers, consumers, and investors have the power to make a greener, more just planet.
The Rich and the Rest of Us
In this age of inequality, the wealth that should be shared by all Americans trickle up to the rich.
Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it’s our turn.
Race and Extreme Inequality
Will Obama’s presidential candidacy signal a change for impoverished African-Americans?
This Land Is Their Land
In the era of the superrich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can’t afford to be there.
We Need a New NAFTA
The political debate over the trade deal is long overdue.
Three Amigos Summit
The NAFTA-expanding Security and Prosperity Partnership is too cozy with big business.
Despite Failures, CEOs Cash In
The problem of excessive pay is not being fixed, even for the top executives of companies in distress.
Busting Paranoid Right-Wing Fantasies of Dissolving the Mexico-U.S.-Canada Borders
Expanding NAFTA is wrong, but not because of a mythical North American Union.
The Economic Side of MLK’s Dream
We’re not much closer to the promised land than we were at the time of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination.
Reports
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
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
