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
IPS to Host 3rd State of Black Workers in America Conference
Day-long conference to feature panels discussing most innovative organizing led by Black workers in the U.S. in the Trump era
The Unpleasant Impact of an Unserious Budget
If you can get past the fuzzy math, Trump’s budget means certain pain for most families — and big tax cuts for the wealthiest few.
Illinois is Tired of Carrying the Carried Interest Loophole
After two years without a budget, the Illinois state senate moves to close a tax loophole that cost the state billions.
How Extreme Inequality Breeds Contempt for the Vulnerable
We need to do more than assail the heartless new Trump budget. We need to understand its roots in our chronic and continuing inequality.
Who Suffers the Most from the U.S. Drug War? Families
How drug-related suffering can bring black and white families together against a failed punitive model.
Donald Trump Is Playing ‘Bad Cop’ With His Extremist Budget Proposal
The president is useful to Republicans because he allows them to appear comparably less extreme than they actually are.
The Walmart Tax
When you pay your workers so little, it’s the American taxpayers who make up the gap. But how do we stop subsidizing wage theft?
Envisioning a Post-Trump Future
A new book published by the Next Systems Project challenges us to think past today’s daily scandals to consider exactly what kind of society we want to live in.
Wealthy Heir Says: “Tax Me!”
A beneficiary of family wealth speaks out against a Washington, D.C. proposal to pay for estate tax cuts by shortchanging public services.
El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
On 30th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country in the world to do so.
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
