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
Donor-Advised Funds Now Consume a Quarter of Individual Charitable Giving
The National Philanthropic Trust’s latest report on DAFs reveals just how rapidly they’re growing.
Saving the Game Requires Cutting Coaches’ Bonanza
We need to take on this excessive compensation to start fashioning a healthier college football future
10 Victories for the Working Class in 2023
From the picket lines to state houses to the White House, champions in the fight against inequality landed huge wins.
Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
Shuttering the Nuclear Weapons Sites: There’s Gold in Those Warheads but the Scrap Metal is Radioactive
I drew the line when it came to the disposition of radiologically contaminated materials, such as the vast amount of scrap metal resulting from the decommissioning of nuclear weapons facilities.
In Our Deeply Unequal World, the Garbage Rises Ever Higher
The rich aren’t creating jobs. On Everest and elsewhere, they’re creating waste.
Pentagon Pollution Is a Global Embarrasment
The Department of Defense remains the most carbon-intensive institution in the world. It’s time to stop dumping money into the military.
Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
I’ve spent the last few years working with poor people advocating for change. Seeing their resilience firsthand, I feel hopeful.
Like it or Not, Billionaires Are on Your Gift List This Holiday Season
In this season of giving, tax laws designed to support charities may actually protect billionaire wealth — at our expense.
Mexico Must Stand up to Agribusiness Oligopolies on GM Corn Ban
U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments’ efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn.