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
What’s Worse Than Ticket Scalpers? Stock Scalpers.
A new Wall Street Tax proposal would crack down on the high frequency traders that are cheating the rest of us.
The Role of Family Wealth in Reinforcing Generational Divides
How can anyone, especially 30-somethings, afford to live in increasingly expensive cities?
Teachers Urge Divestment from Private Prisons
A recent report exposes how public pensions are intertwined with institutions that profit off mass incarceration.
A New Statistical Shell Game for Justifying Billionaires
Some daring conservatives are using the successes of Scandinavia to rationalize gran private fortunes.
Helicopter Parenting Linked to Economic Inequality?
China and the United States — two nations notorious for their helicopter parenting — just happen to sport two of the world’s deepest economic divides. Coincidence?
What States Can Do to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through Tax Policy
State governments have many options for recouping the windfalls large corporations and the wealthy received through the 2017 Republican federal tax law.
Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal
Critics dismiss it as a dream. But that’s precisely what it is. It’s visionary.
Bernie Sanders’ 77 Percent Estate Tax for Billionaires is Not Enough
The tax will raise revenues. But unless a glaring loophole is closed, the corrosive effects on our democracy will continue.
Organizers Oust Amazon HQ2 from New York
Invest in communities, New Yorkers say, not a labor-busting, tax-avoiding corporation that profits off hate.
The Shutdown as Shock Doctrine
The right wing could use the shutdown as a pretext to accelerate cuts to public services it deems ‘inessential.’
Reports
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
Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020
