Public Interest Groups
Economic Hardship Reporting Project
This journalism project, initially incubated at the Institute for Policy Studies by Barbara Ehrenreich, aims to force America’s crisis of poverty and economic insecurity to the center of the national conversation.
The Equality Trust
A London-based effort, founded in 2009, that aims to reduce income inequality through a public and political education designed to widen understanding of the harm that income inequality inflicts on our modern societies.
Public Citizen
A public interest group that works to ensure that all citizens are represented in the halls of power.
Citizens for Tax Justice
A Washington, D.C.-based public interest research and advocacy organization that seeks to give ordinary people a greater voice in tax policy, against the armies of special interest lobbyists for corporations and the wealthy.
The Gini Project
An interdisciplinary effort that draws on economics, sociology, political science, and health studies to examine the social impact of growing inequality.
Population Health Forum
A Seattle-based initiative designed to raise awareness and initiate dialogue about how political, economic, and social inequalities interact to affect the overall health status of our society.
Inequality Media with Robert Reich
A project to produce compelling videos about inequality and partner with leading organizations to provide an avenue through which viewers can engage, mobilize, and take action.
Patriotic Millionaires
A network of high-net worth Americans, business leaders, and investors who are united in their concern about historic levels of inequality and the destabilizing concentration of wealth and power in America.
Americans for Financial Reform
A coalition of more than 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith-based, and civic and community groups formed in the wake of the 2008 crisis to lay the foundation for a strong, stable, and ethical financial system – one that serves the economy and the nation as a whole.