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Black and Latino Families Will Be Broke in a Few Decades if We Don't Fix the Wealth Divide

Josh Hoxie | September 28, 2017
New research shows that if the growing racial wealth divide is left unchecked, median Black and Latino families will become penniless within a few decades. It doesn't have to be this way. 
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The Dark Side of Hosting the Olympics

Kenneth Worles | September 28, 2017
The Olympics are coming back to Los Angeles. But the games are notoriously bad news for poor people in host cities.
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Can Anti-Racist Businesses Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?

Emily Norton | September 28, 2017
Corporations rejecting racism is good, but it's a low bar — especially when many still profit off it.

We Get Sick, They Get Rich

Sam Pizzigati | September 28, 2017
Our "free market" health care system gives CEOs the freedom to squeeze us.
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VIDEO: Busting Trump's Tax Myths

Sarah Anderson | September 27, 2017
Republicans say corporate tax cuts lead to job growth. That's just not true.
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Muslim Nations Are Rallying to Protect the Rohingya. What About the Rest of Us?

John Feffer | September 27, 2017
If only Muslims reach out to help the Rohingya, the international community will suffer another blow to its reputation.
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The Brutal Racial Politics of Climate Change and Pollution

Basav Sen | September 27, 2017
Trump administration policies are systematically making natural disasters more harmful for the poor and people of color.
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The GOP is Falsely Painting Farmers as the Face of the Estate Tax Repeal

Chuck Collins | September 27, 2017
Groups that represent real small farmers with tractors actually support estate tax reform.
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America is Ready for Universal Health Coverage

Josh Hoxie | September 18, 2017
The United States today is the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee health care as a basic right to all its citizens. The Medicare For All Act could change that.
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The President Is a Ponzi Scheme

John Feffer | September 14, 2017
Here and abroad, Trump's wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade.
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The War on Terror Has Targeted Muslims Almost Exclusively

Maha Hilal | September 14, 2017
The war on terror was supposed to be about making our country safer. As a Muslim American, I don’t feel safer at all.
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Hurricane Donald Hits the Republican Party

John Feffer | September 14, 2017
If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of nukes and an underfunded state — and no one but China to keep us afloat.
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It's Lonely Being a Person of Color in the Sustainable Energy Sector

Lyn Griffith Taylor | September 13, 2017
When it comes to diversity, there's a "green ceiling" in many climate action groups, even as climate change affects people of color first and worst.

Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed | September 13, 2017
As our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it's also becoming poorer.

It's Not Too Late to Reverse the Road to Zero Wealth for Households of Color

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed | September 13, 2017
No savings, investments or home equity. This economic dystopia looms for minority families, and so does a choice: Do we want America to be more like Brazil or Canada?
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How Bush’s ‘New World Order’ Became Trump’s ‘No World Order’

John Feffer | September 11, 2017
Successive U.S. military interventions upended the very international system the U.S. once pledged to uphold. Now the world faces the twin challenges of ISIS and Trump.
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Texas Is Flooded Because Our Democracy Is, Too

Basav Sen | September 6, 2017
Our culture of legalized bribery makes climate disasters more likely, but there's an alternative.

Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You

Josh Hoxie | September 6, 2017
Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it.
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An Anti-Poverty Program That Makes It Pay to Work

Aditi Katti | September 6, 2017
The Earned Income Tax Credit may be the most popular bipartisan anti-poverty tool. So why won't the feds expand it?
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Trump Promised to Put American Workers First. He Lied.

Michael Paarlberg | September 5, 2017
Proposed cuts to federal agency budgets and changes to employment law benefit only the US president and his cronies.

Report: Green Climate Fund, A Performance Check

Karen Orenstein, Oscar Reyes | September 26, 2017
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

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Emanuel Nieves, Josh Hoxie | September 11, 2017
How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class

Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs

Sarah Anderson | August 30, 2017
This 24th annual report rebuts the GOP claim that slashing the corporate tax rate will lead to more and better jobs.

Report: Reversing Inequality

Chuck Collins | August 7, 2017
Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy

Report: How States Can Boost Renewables With Benefits for All

Basav Sen | April 24, 2017
Renewable Portfolio Standards and Distributed Solar Access for Low-Income Households

Report: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low Wage Workers

Sarah Anderson | March 15, 2017
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

Michael Paarlberg, Sameera Hafiz | March 13, 2017
Findings from the Beyond Survival Campaign

Report: Gilded Giving

Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie | November 16, 2016
Top-Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality

Report: Combat Vs. Climate

Ellen Powell, Miriam Pemberton, Nathan Doctor | October 5, 2016
The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

Report: Ever-Growing Gap

Chuck Collins, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed, Emanuel Nieves, Josh Hoxie | August 8, 2016
Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries

Utilities Pay Up

Janet Redman, Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger | July 19, 2016
How ending tax dodging by America's electric utilities can help fund a job-creating, clean energy transition.

Report: Mothers at the Gate

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, Karen Dolan, Nell Bernstein | May 4, 2016
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.

Walking the Talk?

Janet Redman | October 8, 2015
World Bank Energy-Related Policies and Financing, 2000-2004 to 2010-2014

Executive Excess 2015: Money to Burn

Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson | September 2, 2015
This 22nd annual report reveals how CEO pay is accelerating climate change.

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    October 5 @ 5:00 pm - October 9 @ 11:00 pm at Various Venues Around Washington DC

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    UUJEC Webinar: Reversing Inequality with Chuck Collins

    October 5 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm at Online Webinar

    Chuck Collins speaks on "Reversing Wealth Inequality: The Case for Restoring Progressive Taxation and Bringing Wealth Home."

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    IPS's Chuck Collins will be part of a Workshop on "Closing the Wealth Gap on a Finite Planet" and a presentation on "How Equity is the Underappreciated Cornerstone of a Sustainable Society."

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