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
Ten Blockbuster Hearings
Here’s how the Democratic Party’s new majority in Congress can start making a real difference in Washington.
Ten Reasons Why the Wal-Mart Pundits Are Wrong
Rebutting the conservative pundits and corporate flacks who have been singing Wal-Mart’s virtues.
Executive Excess 2006
Defense and oil executives cash in on conflict.
Alternatives to a Wall
How NAFTA, CAFTA, and other corporate-friendly trade policies displace farmers and create mass migration, and how we can do better.
Debt Boomerang
How Americans would benefit from cancellation of impoverished country debts.
Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (Second Edition)
A revised paberback following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America.
Taking Back the Corporation: A Mad as Hell Guide
Not so long ago, corporate America was widely respected. Not anymore. Taking Back the Corporation tells us how to take it back.
Executive Excess 2005
Defense contractors get more bucks for the bang.
AFTER the FTAA: Lessons from Europe for the Americas
With the talks for a free trade agreement for the entire Western Hemisphere on the brink of collapse, this report offers lessons from the EU for an alternative approach to integration.
Wal-Mart’s Pay Gap
Wal-Mart CEO compensation is 871 times as high as U.S. Wal-Mart worker pay; 50,000 times Chinese worker pay.
Reports
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
