Research & Commentary

With fortunes inflated by corporate welfare, wealthy real estate owners can afford to cancel housing-related expenses and debts for millions of struggling American families.

Promises of scholarships are very compelling to 17-year-olds, especially those without a lot of other options.

The Xinka people of Guatemala are building on strong community organizing skills rooted in their culture to protect their community from the health threats of both mining and the pandemic.

If policymakers care about motivating people to work, they should focus on raising the minimum wage and giving workers a voice in decisionmaking.

A pandemic has made people realize the importance of public school teachers, but the government still offers them too little, and far too late.

Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin exploit their political connections to maintain a system that generates huge corporate profits and executive pay at taxpayer expense.

"Duke and Dominion did not decide to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline—the people and frontline organizations that led this fight for years forced them into walking away."

Means-tested cash transfer programs are leaving huge numbers of the poor in Jordan, Palestine, and Lebanon without the help they need during the crisis.

As protests against police brutality and racism drive policy shifts around the nation, which changes can actually bring sustained long-term improvements?

A retail worker organizer shares strategies for countering the Wall Street firms that are lobbying for bailout money while laying off workers and closing stores.