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
As Harmful Spending Policies Loom, IPS Teams Up with Federal Budget Experts
The National Priorities Project is joining the Institute for Policy Studies to fight for a budget that prioritizes people over profit.
Black and Latino Families Will Be Broke in a Few Decades if We Don’t Fix the Wealth Divide
New research shows that if the growing racial wealth divide is left unchecked, median Black and Latino families will become penniless within a few decades. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The Dark Side of Hosting the Olympics
The Olympics are coming back to Los Angeles. But the games are notoriously bad news for poor people in host cities.
Can Anti-Racist Businesses Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?
Corporations rejecting racism is good, but it’s a low bar — especially when many still profit off it.
We Get Sick, They Get Rich
Our “free market” health care system gives CEOs the freedom to squeeze us.
VIDEO: Busting Trump’s Tax Myths
Republicans say corporate tax cuts lead to job growth. That’s just not true.
The Racial Wealth Divide Is Worse Than People Think — and It’s Growing
Wealthy white households control the vast majority of the nation’s economic resources, and they appear to have no idea how the rest of society lives.
The GOP is Falsely Painting Farmers as the Face of the Estate Tax Repeal
Groups that represent real small farmers with tractors actually support estate tax reform.
INDIANA FARMER CAMPAIGNING WITH TRUMP TO REPEAL ESTATE TAX CASHED $3.3 M IN FARM SUBSIDY CHECKS
Research compiled by the Institute for Policy Studies reveals Kip Tom of Tom Farms is the 9th largest farm subsidy recipient in Indiana.
America is Ready for Universal Health Coverage
The United States today is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t guarantee health care as a basic right to all its citizens. The Medicare For All Act could change that.
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
