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
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.
Are CEOs worth that much more?
The huge pay gap only makes sense if CEOs add hundreds of times more value than other leaders in society.
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.
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
