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
Trump Gets Socialized Health Care. What About the Rest of Us?
The president has free access to the best medical care in the world. There’s no reason why the rest of America shouldn’t get what their taxes pay for.
Vacant Housing
A new report addresses housing shortages and vacancies in Los Angeles.
Can You Imagine Ivanka Trump Consulting for a Pizza Parlor?
At tax time in a plutocratic America, anything goes for a family like the Trumps.
You Paid More Taxes Than Donald Trump
There are two tax systems in America: one for you and me, and one for the wealthiest 0.1 percent.
Trump, the Job Killer
Debate moderators should ask Trump: If you’ve brought back manufacturing jobs, why have 1,800 U.S. factories closed under your watch?
Inequality and COVID-19 in 13 Charts
A new data visualization series illustrates how the pandemic and flawed policy responses have widened long-standing economic, racial, and gender divides.
Let’s Start Debating What Deeply Dooms Democracy: Concentrated Wealth
Why we need to shove inequality onto America’s political center stage.
Remembering Bill Gates Sr.
He believed the estate tax was an “economic opportunity recycling program.”
FinCen Files Shine Spotlight on Suspicious Bank Transfers
The reporters behind the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers gave more to share. We should pay attention.
When Police Repression is Not Enough: A U.S. Corporation is Suing Guatemala to Crush Local Mining Opposition
Global mining companies are turning to international arbitration to strong-arm governments into bending to their interests.