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
11 “Small” Banks That Would Benefit from Deregulation Bill Have Huge Pay Gaps of 146 to 1
Supporters of a Senate-approved deregulation bill claim it will provide relief for community banks. But, judging by the size of the beneficiaries’ CEO-worker pay ratios, they are hardly Mom & Pops.
One-Time Bonuses, Full-Time Con: Trump’s Tax Cuts Deliver Worker Layoffs
Corporate public relations teams extol bonuses to pump up the Republican re-election effort, but many people will end up unemployed.
Just How Unequal Are America’s Major Corporations?
Pay scales at major U.S. businesses are way out of whack — and that’s just at the ones we know about.
Getting Real About School Safety
Armed adults don’t make kids safer. They put them at greater risk.
How to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through State Government Taxes
As the new federal tax law slashes IRS bills for corporations and the wealthy, the momentum is growing for progressive state-level taxes that could recoup some of these resources.
Florida Farmworkers Push for Fairness in the Fields
South Florida was known as a hotbed for modern day slavery. Now, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is using their innovative model to bring dignity to the tomato fields.
Poverty, Inequality, and the Poor People’s Campaign — 50 Years Later
How the diminishing value of minimum wage and declining unions are contributing to a poverty rate that hasn’t budged since 1967.
Parkland Students Join Their Generation Z Peers to Change the Country
“Our voices are getting louder. Our political power is expanding.”
Investors and Employees Gain a New Tool to Fight Inequality
The new SEC disclosure regulation finally sees daylight, bringing changes for shareholders, employees, and even consumers, Sarah Anderson explains in this Bloomberg Q+A.
The Tax Scam Is Starting to Sink In
While billionaires fund a PR push for the tax law, most ordinary workers report seeing no increase in their take-home pay.
Reports
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
Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide
Report: Agricultural Cooperatives
