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
A Year Out, the Election Day Hangover We Can’t Get Rid Of
At his inauguration Trump promised a government controlled by the people. How are the people faring so far?
Private Jets and Trust Fund Kids Show Where the GOP’s Tax Priorities Lie
The private jets provision in the Senate bill is indicative of who’s at the table – the wealthiest presidential cabinet in American history and their billionaire friends.
America’s Wealth Inequality Has Reached Staggering New Levels
Most concerning is the potential for these wealth hoarders to use their outsized bank accounts to buy outsized power over our government.
What’s One Way to Fight Inequality? Fund Local Journalism.
Joe Rickett’s decision to shut down two major online publicationshas altered the local U.S. news environment. Barbara Ehrenreich plans on restoring it.
What Else Could a Tax Cut for the Richest 1% Buy in Your State?
New data from our National Priorities Project shows what’s at stake if America’s richest get a tax cut.
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett Are Wealthier Than The Bottom Half of the Country Combined
That’s three people versus about 160 million people.
Stop Talking About ‘Winners and Losers’ from Corporate Tax Cuts
No working person should pay more to reward billionaires and corporate tax dodgers.
Trump’s Tax Plan Taunts the Dignity of Labor
If it passes, this plan would have our national tax burden resting overwhelmingly on income from the labor of working people.
It’s the Best of Times for Billionaires, The Worst for Everyone Else
There’s much to learn from Dickens’ iconic story. Our revolution doesn’t have to be as bloody.
Republicans Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors
It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it.
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
