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
Field Guide to the Global Economy (Second Edition)
The Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy.
Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
Weaving personal narratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates and Collins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, not repeal.
Executive Excess 2004
Campaign Contributions, Outsourcing,
Unexpensed Stock Options and Rising CEO Pay
Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose
The tenth annual CEO pay survey.
Coalition of the Willing–Part II
After failing to obtain authorization for war from the UN Security Council, the Bush Administration has scrambled to assemble a so-called “Coalition of the Willing” to lend the military action against Iraq the illusion of genuine multilateralism and legitimacy.
Coalition of the Willing or Coaltion of the Coerced?
The U.S. public should carefully scrutinize any claim by the Bush Administration that they
have assembled a “coalition of the willing.”
Executive Excess 2002: CEOs Cook the Books, Skewer the Rest of Us
The ninth annual CEO compensation survey.
Executive Excess 2001: Layoffs, Tax Rebates, and the Gender Gap
The eighth annual CEO compensation survey.
Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power
As citizen movements the world over launch activities to counter aspects of economic globalization, the growing power of private corporations is becoming a central issue.
Executive Excess 2000
The seventh annual CEO compensation survey.