I keep waiting for Tony Xu, the billionaire CEO of DoorDash, to break his silence about the ICE agents who’ve shot three of his company’s drivers. 

The most recent victim: Wilber Garcés Pérez, shot in the back a few weeks ago in Texas while on a DoorDash delivery run. In July, driver Joan Sebastian Guerrero lost his life to an ICE agent’s bullet in Maine. And back in January, an agent shot driver Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through the door of his Minneapolis home. 

Would Xu’s response be any different if the victims had been DoorDash executives instead of mere “Dashers”?

Public pressure on corporate execs who aren’t standing up for their workers attacked by ICE has been rising, and that pressure needs to continue. That's one reason we’re so excited to be honoring Unidos MN, an organization that’s keeping up the heat on Target for failing to speak out about ICE abuses. Unidos will be receiving our annual Institute for Policy Studies Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.

More on this award here and more below on the inspiring work of Unidos MN . 

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for the Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org team

How Minnesota Became So Prepared Before ICE Came to Town

This week’s frontline face: Emilia Gonzalez Avalos, the executive director of Unidos MN, an immigrant-led multiracial organization building civic power that’s one of the IPS 2026 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards winners. 

What she’s doing to help create a more equal world: Gonzalez Avalos and the Unidos MN team spent a good chunk of 2025 training a remarkable 50,000 Minnesotans on how to legally observe on-the-prowl federal agents. Late last year, when ICE descended on the Twin Cities, those Minnesotans put that training to good use monitoring and resisting ICE outrages.

Unidos MN has now turned that training program, Monarca, toward helping community members defend democracy ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. If the Trump administration does try to meddle in the democratic process in Minnesota, people trained by Unidos MN will be ready, once again, to resist.

What makes this fight so important: “Our rights to fair and free elections are at risk,” Gonzalez Avalos recently observed for Inequality.org. “So we’re proactively arming ourselves and our communities with the knowledge and tactics necessary to resist if Trump makes good on his threats on the sanctity of the midterms.”

A Shoppers’ Bill of Rights To Protect Our Nation’s Consumers

Our corporate giants are working constantly to find new ways to squeeze every last dollar out of consumers. Now those corporations have a new package of tools to tighten that squeezing. Through “surveillance pricing,” corporate CEOs can charge consumers the absolute maximum they’re likely to pay for an item by deploying AI-powered technologies to pick through shoppers’ personal data. 

How can we combat this new price gouging? One way, argues Lindsay Owens in a new book, would be through a “Shoppers’ Bill of Rights.” Setting baseline rules for a fair marketplace — banning surveillance pricing, for instance, and requiring companies to act with the best interests of consumers in mind — could go a long way to protecting us all from ravenous corporate greed.

Wealth concentration is soaring, but most of the gains going to our richest 1 percent are actually filling the pockets of an extraordinarily tiny group of super rich who sit at our national wealth summit. The wealth share of the top 0.00001 percent — roughly just 20 households — has nearly doubled, rising from 1.2 percent of total U.S. wealth in November 2022 to 2.3 percent today.

The next richest 0.9999 percent of households, meanwhile, have seen their share remain virtually unchanged, edging up from 37.5 percent to 37.7 percent. In other words, even within the richest 1 percent, wealth is increasingly concentrating in the hands of just a few.

For an interactive version of this chart and more on income inequality, click the link to our Inequality.org Facts section below.

This week’s overpaid CEO: Philip Daniele III of AutoZone. 

How Daniele is driving inequality: In 2025, Daniele’s compensation came to $9.6 million, 331 times as much as AutoZone’s median pay of just $29,017. To make sure his workers’ wages stay low, Daniele has continued the giant auto part chain’s long tradition of union-busting. 

This year the company spent an estimated $200,000 to thwart an organizing drive in White Plains, New York, according to the nonprofit watchdog Labor Lab. Management transferred anti-union workers to the store and attempted to intimidate other employees through captive audience meetings, constant surveillance, and threats of discipline. 

On September 25, the White Plains workers stood up to this pressure and voted six to four to join UAW Local 259, making their store the first to unionize in AutoZone history. 

The last word: “There is no bargaining when you’re alone,” notes White Plains employee David Valencia. “They’re only going to bargain when you’re together. So we don’t have a choice. Either we’re going to live in poverty and not be able to pay our bills, or we’re going to do this.”

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