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Climate Justice, Economic Justice
New Report “High Flyers 2026” Reveals How Private Jets Costs Taxpayers and the Planet
One key solution: make private jet-setters pay their fair share.
Economic Justice
New Report Spotlights Philanthropy Under Oligarchy and How to Reform Charitable Giving to Defend and Expand Democracy
The analysis spotlights the impacts of three major trends in giving – accumulation, capitulation, and, in rare but instructive cases, solidarity – while demonstrating how adjusting payout requirements would unleash hundreds of billions for working charities.
Economic Justice
REPORT: CEO-Worker Pay Gaps and Political Priorities of the 100 Largest Low-Wage Corporations
‘Low-Wage 100’ CEOs enrich themselves while their workers face stagnating wages, drastic cuts to public assistance, and aggressive ICE actions, study finds.
Leadership Programs
Forging a Democracy that Works for All: Institute for Policy Studies Launches Blueprint to Counter Power of Billionaires, Corporations, and the Pentagon ahead of Symposium
On July 23, the 3rd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium will feature insights from movement leaders, policy experts, and elected officials on how to protect hard-earned rights and frontline communities, confront corporate power and Pentagon profiteering, and renew our democratic institutions from within.
Climate Justice
El modelo de energía «verde» de Honduras se basa en el despojo, advierte estudio, mientras el Congreso de Honduras se dispone a privatizar la Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (ENEE)
En informe explica como generación, distribución y transmisión privada de energía disfrazada de sostenibilidad, que genera daños ambientales, sociales y económicos en las comunidades afectadas, colma de garantías a los inversionistas privados, y trata el acceso a la electricidad como una mercancía en lugar de un derecho humano.
Climate Justice
Honduras’ “green” energy model is based on dispossession, study warns, as Honduran Congress prepares to privatize the NationalElectrical Energy Company (ENEE)
Report shows how private energy generation, distribution, and transmission under the guise of sustainability leads to environmental, social, and economic harm to affected communities, ensures exorbitant guarantees to private investors, and treats access to electricity as a commodity rather than a human right.
IPS in the news
Sarah Anderson in the Los Angeles Times: Low-Wage CEOs Are Silent as ICE Targets Their Own Workers
IPS’s Sarah Anderson writes in the Los Angeles Times that Low-Wage 100 corporations cheered the One Big Beautiful Bill’s tax cuts while saying nothing about the ICE raids targeting their own workers — and that cracking down on excessive CEO pay must be part of any plan to revive American democracy.
Christine Ahn in Truthout: Progressives Should Support Scaling Back U.S. War Drills in Korea
IPS fellow Christine Ahn argues in Truthout that reducing U.S.-South Korea war drills — costing $5.6 billion a year — is the right policy, and that progressives should support diplomacy with North Korea even when the messenger is Trump.
National Priorities Project Research on National Guard Deployment Costs Featured in Common Dreams
Common Dreams cites IPS’s Hanna Homestead finding that the National Guard deployment in D.C. costs nearly 9 to 10 times more than it would to house every homeless person in the city — while a Reuters investigation finds the troops have had almost no impact on violent crime.
IPS Analysis of National Guard Costs During Chicago’s Immigration Enforcement Surge Cited in Latin Times
Latin Times cites IPS data on National Guard deployment costs during Chicago’s immigration enforcement surge, as part of a broader accounting of how federal immigration raids have cost the economies of Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago billions in lost output, jobs, and tax revenue.
Phyllis Bennis on Al Jazeera: Netanyahu’s Rejection of Gaza Withdrawal Plan Keeps Genocide Going
Phyllis Bennis tells Al Jazeera English that Netanyahu’s rejection of a phased Gaza withdrawal exposes the limits of US pressure that exists only in words — and that as long as weapons and money keep flowing, the genocide continues.
IPS National Priorities Project Data on Deportation Costs Featured in Newsweek
Newsweek cites IPS’s National Priorities Project finding that Trump’s mass deportation plan will cost U.S. taxpayers $268.9 billion, illustrated with a county-by-county breakdown of where that money is being spent.
