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This is the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Public Housing

This is the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Public Housing

More than half a million Americans are homeless — the size of a large city.

Inside “The Souls of Poor Folk” Moral Audit with Co-Author

“The Poor People’s Campaign was a project first introduced by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, who was assassinated months after he announced it. It has been restarted by the Reverends William Barber and Liz Theoharis. The revived campaign kicks off actions in 41 states on May 14, the day after Mother’s Day. Recently, the […]

Bring Back May Day

Bring Back May Day

Politicians have made a mess of things for American workers, but a new Poor People’s Campaign is rising to set things right.

Martin Luther King’s Dream Rises Again

Martin Luther King’s Dream Rises Again

A new report uses facts, figures, and faces to make the case for the revival of the Poor People’s Campaign.

A New Poor People’s Campaign Is Rising — And It Puts Climate Front and Center

A New Poor People’s Campaign Is Rising — And It Puts Climate Front and Center

Only a system premised on extreme inequality would choose fossil fuel profits over the future of humanity.

Poor People’s Campaign Gears Up for Mother’s Day Launch

Poor People’s Campaign Gears Up for Mother’s Day Launch

A major new report makes the case for a “fusion movement” against systemic racism, poverty and inequality, miltarism and the war economy, and ecological devastation.

Radical New Leaders Are Reviving Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign

Radical New Leaders Are Reviving Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign

The movement looks to rebuild the cross-racial civil rights alliance disintegrated during a half-century of counter-revolution. Their radical vision is more necessary than ever.

Poverty, Inequality, and the Poor People’s Campaign — 50 Years Later

Poverty, Inequality, and the Poor People’s Campaign — 50 Years Later

How the diminishing value of minimum wage and declining unions are contributing to a poverty rate that hasn’t budged since 1967.

The GOP Tax Plan Is Igniting a Movement for a Moral Economy

The GOP Tax Plan Is Igniting a Movement for a Moral Economy

While Republicans may succeed in scoring a short term win for their donors, their tax plan is sparking a new moral movement against inequality.

10 Reasons to Revive the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign

10 Reasons to Revive the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign

Inspired by an initiative cut short by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., moral leaders are planning a wave of civil disobedience.

Report: The Poor People’s Campaign, 50 Years Later

Report: The Poor People’s Campaign, 50 Years Later

Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged System Racism, Poverty, Militarism, and our National Morality.

Report: Restoring Opportunity in California

Taxing Wealth to Fund College for All in California
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Report: CEO-Worker Pay Ratios in the Banking Industry

A decade after the crash, excessive pay is still a problem at the mega-banks and the 2nd-tier firms that stand to benefit from the current deregulation push.

Report: The Souls of Poor Folk

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Report: How Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2017

Our analysis found that the average taxpayer put in 29 working days in 2017 to pay Pentagon contractors.

Report: The Poor People’s Campaign, 50 Years Later

Auditing America 50 Years After the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged System Racism, Poverty, Militarism, and our National Morality.

Report: High Flyers 2017

How the private jet lobby shifts costs to the rest of us, threatens our security, and fuels a warming planet.
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Report: Billionaire Bonanza 2017

The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us

Report: I Dream Detroit

The Voice and Vision of Women of Color on Detroit’s Future.

Report: Green Climate Fund, A Performance Check

An initial assessment of whether the Green Climate Fund is living up to its mandate finds that its becoming a sideshow to big development banks.

Report: The Road to Zero Wealth

How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs

This 24th annual report rebuts the GOP claim that slashing the corporate tax rate will lead to more and better jobs.

Report: Reversing Inequality

Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy

Report: How States Can Boost Renewables With Benefits for All

Renewable Portfolio Standards and Distributed Solar Access for Low-Income Households

Report: The CEO Pay Tax Break in the Republican Health Care Proposal

The cost of removing Obamacare limits on the tax deductibility of executive compensation, based on pay data at the top 5 insurers.

Report: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low Wage Workers

The 2016 bonus pool held enough dollars to lift the pay of all of the country’s more than 3 million servers up to $15 an hour.

Report: The Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers in the United States

Findings from the Beyond Survival Campaign

Report: A Tale of Two Retirements

As working families face rising retirement insecurity, CEOs enjoy platinum pensions.

Report: Gilded Giving

Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality

Help Spread the Word: #CanURetire

Help us spread the word about our latest report, “A Tale of Two Retirements: As Working Families Face Rising Retirement Insecurity, CEOs Enjoy Platinum Pensions.”

Report: Combat Vs. Climate

The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole

This 23rd annual report reveals how taxpayers are subsidizing financial crisis windfalls.

Report: Ever-Growing Gap

Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won’t Match White Wealth for Centuries

Utilities Pay Up

How ending tax dodging by America’s electric utilities can help fund a job-creating, clean energy transition.

Report: Mothers at the Gate

A movement of family members is developing around the country that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself.

Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador

This study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation at the local level is deceitful, disrespectful and dangerous

Off the Deep End: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low-Wage Workers

The financial industry’s 2015 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.

Black Workers Matter: Organize the South

A Conference Highlights Report

CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers

Loophole allowed 10 companies to shave $180 million off their taxes for CEO pay last year.

Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us

Wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than half the American population

A Tale of Two Retirements

One hundred CEOs have as much in retirem