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
The Bailout and CEO Pay: What’s ‘Excessive’?
Congress should use the bailout to reform executive pay, not maintain it.
The Bailout and ‘Greedy’ CEOs
Congress should use the proposed bailout legislation for much-needed reform.
Tax the Speculators
A fair plan to pay for economic recovery.
Development Redefined: How the Market Met its Match
This brief history of development connects an arcane world with contemporary forces of globalization, environmental degradation, and the violation of perhaps the essential human right: to be considered individually, equally, in an economically viable world and way.
Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaire Executives
American taxpayers can no longer foot the bill for the bloated paychecks of U.S. corporate aristocracy.
A Problem of Riches
Why concentrated wealth and the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us are not only bad for our economy but threaten democracy itself.
Workers Need Added Clout to Close the Pay Gap with CEOs
Eroding government regulation and vanishing unions have undermined the values we’re supposed to celebrate every Labor Day.
Executive Excess 2008: How Average Taxpayers Subsidize Runaway Pay
This 15th annual report calculates the annual cost of tax loopholes that encourage excessive executive pay.
Don’t Let Corporations Off the Tax Hook
Taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries.
Politicians Talk Tough About Obscene Executive Pay, But Where Are the Fixes?
Obama and McCain are both taking whacks at overpaid CEOs, but their solutions fall short.
Reports
REPORT: Executive Excess 2023
REPORT: Still A Dream: Over 500 Years to Black Economic Equality
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
