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

Companies Can Either Make Things Or Make CEOs Rich

Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.

Black-led Labor Organizers Discuss Challenges and Tactics of Black Worker Organizing in the Trump Era at State of Black Workers in America Conference

The Institute for Policy Studies held its 3rd State of Black Workers in America Conference at historic Howard University.

Honor Juneteenth by Closing the Racial Wealth Divide

Even over 150 years after slavery, black families still lag centuries behind whites in household wealth.

Who’s To Blame for Inequality?

Deep pockets are pushing to place the blame on firms that can’t keep up with the top 5% of companies, and want to see labor rights slashed accordingly.

Violence Should Be Treated As A Health Issue

Jeff Sessions wants law and order responses to violence, but cities and states are treating violence as the health crisis it is.

The Growing Problem of Hidden Wealth

The more wealth the super rich pile up, new research details, the more taxes they maneuver to evade.

Corporate Allies in Washington Take Aim at CEO Pay Reform

Despite a growing consensus that corporate CEOs are overpaid, Washington’s CEO Pay Apologists Club mobilizes to strike down executive pay reforms.

It’s Time for Trump to Do Something About High CEO Pay

Candidate Trump repeatedly bashed high CEO pay, but President Trump has done very little to address CEO pay ratios.

Help Spread the Word: #ReversingInequality

Help us spread the word about our new report.

No Country for People with Disabilities

Trump wants to slash $610 billion from Medicaid — on top of the $800 billion the House wants to cut in repealing Obamacare. That will be devastating for people with disabilities.

Black Worker Initiative

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Drug Policy

Global Economy

Inequality.org

Program on Inequality and the Common Good

National Priorities Project

Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Reports

Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose

Frank Clemente, Chuck Collins, Arianna Fano, Omar Ocampo, William Rice | February 3, 2021

Billionaires Win, We Lose

Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health

Bianca Agustin, Chuck Collins, Jonathan Heller, Sara Myklebust, Omar Ocampo | November 18, 2020

'Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health' report urges Delinquent Dozen companies to protect workers from exploitative owners and executives.

How U.S. Trade Policy Failed Workers — And How to Fix It

Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Kevin Gallagher, Manuel Perez-Rocha, Sandra Polaski, Rebecca Ray | September 16, 2020

Now more than ever, we need a new trade policy to support an economic recovery from the pandemic and to start building an economy that works for everyone.

Reimagining School Safety

Cecelia Scheuer, Uma Nagarajan-Swenson, Karen Dolan, Lindsay Koshgarian | September 9, 2020

A look at the dangers posed to students by law enforcement and how to invest in real school safety for our nation’s children.

Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration

Jen Moore, Ellen Moore, Luis Solano | August 24, 2020

Across the Global South, international mining companies use disturbing tactics to forcibly open mining operations against the wills of local communities.

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Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery | July 28, 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

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Omar Ocampo, Darrick Hamilton | June 19, 2020

Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide.

Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19

Marc Bayard, Kimberly Freeman Brown | June 16, 2020

Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms—the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism.

Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2020

Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Sophia Paslaski | April 23, 2020

Billionaire wealth has grown astoundingly over the last few decades — and, for some “pandemic profiteers,” even more dramatically since the COVID-19 crisis.