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
REPORT: El Salvador’s State of Deception
State of DeceptionA fact-finding report on El Salvador’s detained water defenders, the potential return of environmentally destructive mining, and the state of human rights under the Bukele administration. Alejandro Artiga-Purcell | Robin Broad | Pedro Cabezas | John...
Labor and Green Colonialism in the Global South
What will happen to workers in the transition to clean energy?
How Redlining’s Legacies Demand New Policy Action
Redlining has inscribed unjust boundaries in our cities and worsened inequality. It’s time for bold policy solutions.
Budget Deal Ensures Bombs Will Keep Dropping While Fewer Human Needs Are Met
All of that military funding comes at the direct cost of funding social programs and climate programs.
A Working Class Victory on Colombia’s Horizon
An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.
The Rich Who Own the Home Next Door
America’s wealthiest are increasingly — and systematically — locking modest-income families out of the American dream.
Letter Signed by 185 Academics and Lawyers Calls on Attorney General of El Salvador to Drop Charges against Water Defenders, Respect Human Rights
185 academics and lawyers and 13 legal and related organizations from 21 countries send Open Letter to the Attorney General of El Salvador requesting that the case against five Salvadoran Water Defenders be dropped, and that the Attorney General respect and enforce the human rights of all Salvadorans.
185 académicos y abogados y 13 organizaciones legales de 26 países envían una carta abierta al Fiscal General de la Republic de El Salvador solicitando que se abandone el caso contra cinco lideres comunitarios de Santa Marta y ADES, y que el Fiscal General respete y haga respetar los derechos humanos de todo el pueblo salvadoreño
La carta solicita “que la Fiscalía abandone inmediatamente el caso en contra de los Defensores del Agua salvadoreños”.
‘Year of the Strike’ Could Be a Turning Point for Labor Movement
In 2023, a reenergized movement began reversing its downward slide so that all American workers can get a fair reward for their labor.
The Future of Reparations and Economic Equality
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad says reparations and change are possible but will take a “large, long-term commitment from the federal government.”