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 Next Big Billionaire Thing: Hunting Humans?
Can we actually start taxing the rich again? We had better.
Will Corporate Lobbyists Steamroll Stock Buyback Regulations?
The SEC should stand up to the Chamber of Commerce and keep fighting for rules to expose CEOs who manipulate buybacks to pad their own pockets.
Some New Hope for a Check on CEO Compensation
A Delaware state court ruling has shaken up the pay world for corporate execs
A Super Bowl Note to Taylor Swift: Love the Music, Park the Private Jet
Congrats, Taylor, for your talent and decades of consistently great songwriting. You deserve all the accolades and rewards. But I have one request…
The Senate’s Failed War and Border Deal is Not Security
Security for all means honoring legal immigration, creating paths to citizenship, and it means ending and preventing wars.
Waking the Sleeping Giant of the Low-Income Voting Bloc
The Poor People’s Campaign is planning 42 weeks of actions to mobilize this potentially powerful yet often ignored segment of the electorate.
MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Experts Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo on Taylor Swift’s Private Jet Travel Habits and the Cost of Private Jet Travel to Taxpayers and the Planet
“Taylor Swift’s potential flight from Tokyo to Las Vegas just to attend the Super Bowl is the best argument for a tax on private jet travel.”
The Penalty for Exposing How Our Plutocracy Operates? Five Years Behind Bars
Tax consultant Charles Littlejohn faces prison while our richest continue to feel precious little tax-time pain.
Foundation-to-DAF Conversions: Is It a Thing?
Foundation-to-DAF conversions make up only about 5 percent of all dissolving foundations, but they represent a much larger portion of the dollars.
Sustaining Rosa Parks’s Struggle for Transit Equity
Transit Equity Day 2024 offers opportunities for reflection and participation.