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
Want to Stimulate the Economy? Tax the Wealthy
Underlying our economic crisis is a polarization of income and wealth.
Will Dems Follow Through on Promises to Fix NAFTA?
Washington is long overdue for making sure U.S. trade policies put workers and the environment above corporate interests.
State of the Dream 2008
IPS and United for a Fair Economy find the subprime lending crisis is causing the greatest loss of wealth to people of color in modern U.S. history.
Wal-Mart’s New Greenwashing Report
The big-box company’s new glossy environmental report can’t hide that its fundamental problem is its business model.
Estate Tax Is Fairest Means of Building Revenue
Congress finally has a chance to have a sober discussion about how to responsibly reform the estate tax.
One Down: Obscenely Decadent War Profiteer Hauled Off in Handcuffs
It looks like the party may be over for one corporate crook
Postcard from … Colombia
As the U.S. “War on Drugs” rages on in Colombia, more and more of its farms have been turned into swaths of scorched earth.
Trickle-Up Economics: New Report Reveals Staggering Global Wealth Concentration
A new business study on global household wealth documents how the world’s wealth is continuing to concentrate in the pockets of the awesomely affluent.
Are Corporate Titans Really Worth the Billions They Suck In?
Is the labor of corporate CEOs really hundreds of times more valuable than the labor of other leaders?
Wal-Marts Sustainability Initiative: A Civil Society Critique
Critiques of Wal-Mart’s approach to sustainability, responding to a bold initiative to turn the world’s largest company green.
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
