Economic Justice

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A Worker-Led Alternative to Billionaire-Owned News in DC

A Q&A with two founders of the 51st, a worker-led nonprofit newsroom launched after the closure of the beloved local outlet DCist.

Articles

Donor-Advised Funds and Foundations Could Eat Up Half of U.S. Individual Gifts by 2028

Charities depend more than ever on donations from our country’s wealthiest donors. Their gifts aren't directly reaching working charities.

Articles

USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests

Unlike the business sector, social and civil organizations have been excluded from the conversation.

Articles

‘Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Lived Through Before’: Labor’s Role in Minnesota’s ICE Resistance

A conversation with Kieran Knutson, president of CWA Local 7250 in Minneapolis.

Reports

Restoring the Land: The Movement to Address the Theft of Tribal Territory

The United States, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, also owes its fortune to a great crime—the theft of land...

Reports

Restoring the Land: The Movement to Address the Theft of Tribal Territory

The United States, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, also owes its fortune to a great crime—the theft of land...

The Public Postal Service and Rural America

USPS delivers countless benefits to rural communities — benefits that would be at risk if for-profit corporations take over this public service.

The G20 at a Crossroads

An independent assessment of the G20’s impact — and lessons for an equitable economic future.

2025 Rural Policy Action Report: A Roadmap for Rural Progress

A positive agenda to improve rural people’s lives and deliver lower costs, higher wages, and freedom.

Executive Excess 2025

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.

Bold Ideas for a New Progressive Majority

A visionary exercise for progressives in an age of American fascism from our second annual Wallace Symposium.

The Giving Pledge at 15

15 years on, the Giving Pledge is unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future.

The High Moral Stakes of the Policy Battles Raging in Washington

Trump and the GOP are cutting programs for the poor to spend more on the war machine, mass deportations, and tax breaks for...

Trading Life for Death: What the Reconciliation Bill Puts at Stake in Your State

Militarized spending hikes must be prevented. Basic needs must be protected.

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Economic Justice

Latest work

Donor-Advised Funds and Foundations Could Eat Up Half of U.S. Individual Gifts by 2028

USMCA Review Needs to Include More Than Just Corporate Interests

‘Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Lived Through Before’: Labor’s Role in Minnesota’s ICE Resistance

Restoring the Land: The Movement to Address the Theft of Tribal Territory