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I NSTITUTE F O R
POL IC Y
STUDIES
I DEA S
INTO
AC T I O N
2 015 A NN UAL REPORT
FROM OUR DIRECTOR & BOARD CHAIR
IDEAS INTO ACTION
Founded in 1963, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is the nation’s first progressive multi-issue
think tank. We are a community of scholars and activists who provide vision and essential resources
to vital social movements working to advance equity, sustainability, and justice.
For over 50 years, we have served as a policy and research resource for visionary social justice
movements - from the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s to the peace and global
justice movements of the last decade.
We are committed to putting bold ideas into action to promote true democracy and challenge
concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power. The cornerstone of our work is public
scholarship, a term we use to describe the connection between our policy research and analysis
(ideas) and grassroots advocacy and organizing (action).
2015 was a year of historical significance. We saw progress on the issue of marriage equality, when the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled in June that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to same-sex couples. This
ruling came about as the result of a massive movement of millions of people around the world calling for
equality. In May, Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si, sent a powerful message calling for intersectional
solutions - urging us to tackle poverty and restore dignity to the excluded while protecting Earth, our
common home.
We saw the power of movements when we celebrated the ratification of the Iran nuclear deal. When
opponents of the deal attempted to undermine it, IPS worked with many of our allies across the country
and around the world to defend it. The success of this deal showed us that diplomacy is a viable alternative
to military aggression. And in July, some of us were present at the opening of the new Cuban embassy in
Washington, D.C., - a historic victory shared among hundreds of activists who have worked in solidarity
with Cuba, to end the blockade and to normalize relations with the island for more years than they could
remember.
We saw the movement for black lives continue to gain momentum across the country. In response, we focused
much of our inequality work on examining the relationship between inequality and racial justice with the
launch of two new areas of work: the Criminalization of Poverty project and the Black Worker Initiative (you
can read more about this work on pages 7-8).
Also in 2015, IPS began a long-term planning process in which we revisited our vision of the world we want
to see and planned initiatives for the coming years that will help bring about needed change. And finally, we
spent the latter half of the year preparing to move from our offices on 16th Street near the White House to
a new and improved space in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The move will bring us closer to other think
tanks and to some of our core allies.
At our 2015 Holiday Party, an occasion we used to bid farewell to the treasured conference room mural by
IPS board member Andy Shallal, we were reflective. In that room, we talked about the world - the one we
dreamed about and the one we wanted to change. As we looked forward to a new office, we recognized that
it is also an opportunity to renew our efforts to improve our economic conditions, our environment, and our
protection of human rights.
Indeed, as we celebrate the progress we made this year, we are look forward to a new year and a new chapter in
our Institute’s history.
Onward,
John Cavanagh, Director
E. Ethelbert Miller, Board Chair
JOHN CAVANAGH,
DIRECTOR
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E. ETHELBERT MILLER,
BOARD CHAIR
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TH
LETELIER-MOFFITT
ANNUAL HUMAN
RIGHTS AWARDS 2015
For 39 years, IPS has hosted an annual human rights awards ceremony
It’s not just enough to get folks out of cages. We need
deep, long-term investment in the communities we’ve
been waging war on for the last 40 years to make those
folks whole. We owe them something. ... However you get
involved, it’s time for you to get involved. Because there’s
a generation depending on you to make sure that they
don’t see a cage, and there’s another generation depending
on you that they’re restored once they come out.”
[IPS and other] civil society organizations are born
from a spirit of solidarity between people rooted in...a
human desire to make things better and change things
that are not working. …CJA’s work embraces a profound
responsibility to pursue justice, peace and dignity. …All of
us at CJA believe that creatively we can make the world a
better place, with the help of friends.”
— daryl atkinson,
letelier-moffitt human rights award winner
— almudena bernabeu,
letelier-moffitt human rights award winner
to honor the memory of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt by
celebrating brave changemakers who are making a positive impact on
their local communities while championing human rights in the United
States and across Latin America and the Caribbean.
domestic award :
international award :
daryl atkinson and the southern
coalition for social justice
almudena bernabeu and the center
for justice and accountability
In 1996, Atkinson pled guilty to a first-time,
nonviolent drug crime and served 40 months in
prison. Since his release, he completed college and
law school and has become a tireless advocate of
second chances for people with criminal records.
Now a Senior Staff Attorney at The Southern
Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) - a nonprofit organization committed to partnering with
and representing economically disadvantaged
individuals and communities of color as they seek
to dismantle structural racism and oppression Atkinson is dedicated to ending the second-class
citizenship assigned to individuals returning from
incarceration.
Almudena Bernabeu, a Spanish international
attorney with the Center for Justice and
Accountability (CJA), has led the prosecutions of
several of the worst Latin American perpetrators of
crimes against humanity. Working with international
human rights activists, Bernabeu and CJA have
also played key roles in several victories this year,
including the U.S. extradition of a former Salvadoran
military officer to stand trial in Spain for the 1989
massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper,
and her daughter.
From left: Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Anita Earls and Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Almudena Bernabeu and Dixon Osburn of the Center for Justice and
Accountability, MSNBC’s Dorian Warren, and IPS Director John Cavanagh.
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IDEAS
INTO
ACTION:
IPS also reaches broad audiences with bold,
progressive ideas through its Foreign Policy in
Focus website (FPIF.org) and Inequality.org, which
is widely seen as the most extensive and accessible
source of analysis on inequality in the country.
SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE
Beyond our in-house media outlets, IPS worked to
advance progressive ideas and innovative solutions
in mainstream and alternative media.
ips is invested in working
with social movements
for change that helps
people and the planet. ips
public scholars believe
that the interconnected
crises of the economy,
environment, democracy,
militarism, and racial
injustice require deep
systemic change. ips has
organized its overlapping
and intersectional work
in three arenas that are
vital to change: shifting
the key narratives through
which people understand
the world, building power
to stand up to corporate
and military opposition
to change, and putting
forward game-changing
rules for peace, justice,
At IPS, we are shifting the narrative by amplifying progressive ideas though
our own online publications and in the mainstream and alternative media.
In 2015, the Institute’s own op-ed service, OtherWords (OtherWords.org),
steadily expanded its reach. It distributed over 400 newsroom-ready
opinion pieces that garnered at least 5,000 hits in the nation’s op-ed
sections. In 2015, OtherWords also attained a longstanding goal: Women
now are the authors of half of the op-eds and columns that it distributes.
In addition to achieving gender parity in our bylines, we developed an
op-ed writing curriculum designed for a series of hands-on workshops,
increased the number of youth-authored commentaries that we distribute,
and introduced two new columns. OtherWords also gained new exposure
in newspapers and online. Among the latest newspapers to start running
our work are the Sanford, North Carolina Herald, the Willmar, Minnesota
West Central Tribune, and The Mt. Clemens, Michigan Macomb Daily.
and the environment.
For example, our research on a long-time IPS CEO
pay reform idea - the elimination of a loophole that
now allows firms to deduct unlimited “performance”
pay from their taxes - received unprecedented
media coverage in 2015, even showing up on an
episode of the popular Netflix series House of
Cards. We also produced a report revealing that
the Wall Street bonus pool was twice as large as the
combined earnings of all U.S. full-time minimum
wage workers. Working with our allies, we also
compared the size of the bonus pool to the cost of
lifting home health workers, restaurant servers, and
fast food workers up to a wage of $15 per hour. The
report received coverage in most of the mainstream
print media, including two pieces in the New York
Times and two articles in USA Today. Another pathbreaking report, “Money to Burn: How CEO Pay is
Accelerating Climate Change,” was the first to spell
out how our short-termist executive pay system is
bad for the planet.
Patriotic Millionaires network, enlisting hundreds of
new members. IPS staff provided key research and
communications to amplify the important voice of
business leaders and wealthy individuals advocating
for fair taxes, living wages, and reduced influence of
money in our political system. Patriotic Millionaires
spokespersons had several media appearances,
including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Finally, IPS launched the Criminalization of Poverty
project in 2015, which aims to look at the ways our
criminal justice system disproportionately impacts
poor people and people of color. The project’s
first report, The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming
Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty, garnered
significant attention in news outlets and social
media. Described as “groundbreaking” by activist
Marian Wright Edelman, the report put the phrase
“criminalization of poverty” into the media lexicon
and is helping tell the criminalization of poverty story
as it relates to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
In April, anti-tax forces in Congress mobilized to
abolish the estate tax, a public policy that effectively
reduces the concentration of wealth and power.
IPS sprang into action, working with allied groups
including the Patriotic Millionaires and Americans
for Tax Fairness. We assembled the best research
and talking points, wrote and placed op-eds, and
provided tools to grassroots groups, policy-makers,
and media. One of our op-eds by Ben & Jerry’s Ben
Cohen and Jerry Greenfield was published in USA
Today and syndicated nationally.
finally shining a light on the way
The Wealth for the Common Good network,
nurtured by IPS, combined efforts to build up the
poor people just for being poor .”
...groundbreaking ...
[ this ] report and similar studies are
some municipalities are criminalizing
— marian wright edelman,
founder, children’s defense fund
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IDEAS
INTO
ACTION:
BUILDING POWER THROUGH
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
we believe that social movements equipped with
bold ideas and cutting-edge research are the
keys to change in societies where corporations
have corrupted politics and rigged the rules
of the economy.
In 2015, IPS worked closely with economic justice and low-wage
worker organizations, including National People’s Action, the
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC), the National
Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), Jobs with Justice (JWJ), and
the National Guest Workers Alliance, to develop strategic research
and communications plans highlighting their core issues. For instance,
IPS co-published a detailed infographic with the National Domestic
Workers Alliance on the homecare industry at a time when the U.S.
Supreme Court was considering a case on extending basic rights to
these workers. After the court made a historic decision in favor of
the workers, IPS partnered with NDWA to create easy-to-understand
materials for NDWA affiliates to unpack the results of the ruling. IPS
also published several op-eds related to this Supreme Court case over
the past year.
This year, under the leadership of Marc Bayard, IPS launched our new
Black Worker Initiative (BWI), a project deeply committed to helping
achieve both the historic and contemporary aims of the labor and
civil rights movements. Black workers have been particularly hard hit
by the rising tide of inequality in today’s economy, and we hope this
initiative will be a part of the solution to helping expand opportunities
for black worker organizing.
In May, the Initiative released its flagship report,
And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices,
Power and Promise, which profiled 27 inspiring black
women labor and worker rights activists from across
the country who are in different stages of their
careers and work in a range of different sectors of
the economy. The report also featured the results
of a national survey of over 450 black women in
the labor movement about their experiences as
workers and as union and workers’ rights activists.
The report and the Initiative garnered attention
from a wide range of media outlets, including The
American Prospect, Buzzfeed, The Clarion Ledger,
Ebony, In These Times, MSNBC, The Nation,
Huffington Post, The National Journal, NBCNews.
com, PBS, RH Reality Check, and Women’s eNews.
Finally, as the U.S.-led, U.S.-armed, and U.S.backed wars and occupations continued across
the Middle East in 2015, IPS Middle East expert
Phyllis Bennis spent much of the year working with
partners in the U.S. and global peace movements,
challenging military policies and working to defend
the rare victories of diplomacy over war. Bennis
strategized with many allies, including Win Without
War, Peace Action, Code Pink, and the National
Iranian-American Council to defend the Iran deal
from congressional efforts to scuttle it. Bennis also
worked with the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation to mobilize Congressional opposition
to the efforts of Israel and AIPAC, including the
joint congressional address by Binyamin Netanyahu,
to undermine the deal. These efforts resulted in 60
members of Congress signing on to publicly skip
Netanyahu’s speech.
with her customary lucidity and
talent for judicious interpretation ,
phyllis bennis provides an
authoritative introduction to all
that is now known about isis . it
is more than a ‘ primer ,’ offering
an indispensable account of the
complex turmoil afflicting the
middle east.”
— richard falk,
professor emeritus of international law & practice at
princeton university
In 2015, Bennis published her newest book,
Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on
Terror, as well as the latest (6th) updated edition
of her popular Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli
Conflict: A Primer. She then spent much of her time
on the road, speaking and strategizing with various
students groups, organizations, and others across
the world on how to build movements to fight for
the alternative approaches outlined in her writing.
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IDEAS
INTO
ACTION:
CHANGING THE RULES AND
SHIFTING THE STATUS QUO
our country and the planet need a
transformation from a militarized, fossil fuel,
wall street economy to a peaceful, clean, and
caring main street economy.
In this work, IPS has worked closely with groups in
El Salvador that have come together in a National
Roundtable Against Mining, and that are fighting
a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a Canadian gold mining
company, against that country's government. In 2015,
IPS helped expose the activities of OceanaGold's
foundation in El Salvador, and helped publicize four
Salvadoran municipalities where majorities voted to
make the towns "territories free of mining."
This year, our Peace Economy Transitions project
continued its work to reduce the hold of militarism
over our economy through a new effort to help
communities adjust to lower levels of defense
spending. Through planning grants offered by
the Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment,
we are now working with experienced organizers
in five states — two “blue,” two “purple,” and one
“red” state — to push these transitions in the right
direction: toward real community dialogue about a
future beyond defense dependency, giving priority
to green manufacturing.
In addition to supporting the transition from a
militarized economy, we are also helping local and
regional communities build an inclusive, sustainable,
and fair economy for all. In 2015, our Program on
Inequality and the Common Good based in Boston,
MA helped two local businesses transition away
from toxic substances as part of its Cancer-Free
Economy initiative. We also launched a “time bank,”
an online platform where neighbors connect to help
each other with needs like childcare, carpentry, and
tutoring.
Through our Climate Policy Program we are also
helping shape the global transition away from
dirty energy to clean renewable energy in a way
that builds community power and local resilience.
In 2015, we worked with allies in securing a micro,
small, and medium-sized enterprise program at the
global Green Climate Fund that focuses on bringing
renewable energy access to communities across the
global South and strengthening the leadership of
women in the clean power sector.
For six years, IPS has played a leadership role in U.S. and international
campaigns for a tax on Wall Street speculation. In 2015, this issue
moved into the center of the Democratic presidential debate and 10
EU countries are on the verge of finalizing the details of a regional
financial transaction tax.
this is a huge victory
for ordinary americans
who are fed up with
a ceo pay system that
rewards the guy in the
corner office hundreds
of times more than
others who add value
to their companies .
”
— sarah anderson, director,
global economy project, ips
In August, the SEC beat back fierce opposition and voted to require
corporations to report the ratio between their CEO and worker
pay - something IPS has been advocating for nearly 20 years. As
Sarah Anderson, director of the Institute’s Global Economy project,
explained in a column featured in the New York Times, there are active
efforts in Rhode Island and California, and now Washington state, to
build on this disclosure requirement by linking the ratio to tax and
procurement policies. We are collaborating with living wage and other
economic justice groups to build on this mechanism for both lifting up
the bottom and bringing down the top.
the world bank faces serious
challenges in matching its pro -
climate discourse with its fossil heavy lending ... at a time when
climate change is recognized by the
bank itself as one of the greatest
risks to development, its actions
need to reflect its rhetoric .”
The Institute's Global Economy project has also been at the forefront
of opposing corporate trade agreements since the fight over NAFTA
25 years ago. In particular, IPS has focused on exposing the negative
impacts of the investment rules in these agreements that favor
corporations over governments, communities, and the environment.
— janet redman,
director, climate policy program, ips
image: dela jari, alp community early warning volunteer,
reading the rain gauge in aman bader village, dakoro niger.
photo by agnes otzelberger. 2015.
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IDEAS
INTO
ACTION:
BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION
OF PROGRESSIVE LEADERS
the newman fellowship has not only allowed
me to explore and build upon my interests in
digital media, but has also exposed me to the
ideas of leaders and social movements that
2013,
have helped to edify my own ideology and set
our board and staff made a major commitment to
my work around. i have been so fortunate
during the institute’s
50th
anniversary year in
increasing the institute's programs to mentor a next
generation of diverse public scholars. ips now has six
fellowship programs that focus on this mentoring.
of core values that i seek to live by and center
to come to a workplace that continually
forces me to challenge my privilege and my
perception of what’s achievable in terms of
social progress, and allows me to envision
ips introduced me to public scholarship,
challenged me to grow as an activist, and
empowered me to combine public scholarship
with my organizing work in new mexico. i feel
that i am a stronger and more well rounded
activist thanks to ips.”
the world in which i want to be a part of more
— cecilia velasco,
new mexico fellow
vividly than any professional experience has
new economy maryland fellows
before.”
In 2015, IPS launched a pilot program in Maryland to mentor the next
generation of public scholars working to build the New Economy movement.
This first cohort of 15 New Economy Maryland fellows not only gained a
personal understanding of the systematic change that needs to occur, but they
were mentored in op-ed writing, and learned to share their perspectives widely.
Every fellow who wrote an op-ed had it placed in mainstream newspapers garnering nearly 60 appearances, with several hits in the Baltimore Sun.
The fellows were able to make connections with our broader network of key
Maryland groups, which culminated in the outstanding success of a September
19 event with over 200 participants in Baltimore, featuring Annie Leonard of
Greenpeace USA and local leaders. The gathering addressed how to build on
the Baltimore uprising, following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody,
to generate a sustained and powerful movement for lasting social change.
IPS is building on this momentum with our 2016 program, where fellows are
meeting more frequently and participating in media training to expand the
message of the New Economy even further.
— eric van dreason,
carol jean and edward f. newman fellow
eric van dreason
carol jean and edward f. newman
fellow
Each year, IPS selects a fellow, based on an endowment
left by Carol and Ed Newman. As the 2015 Newman
Fellow, Eric VanDreason designed the layout and created
infographics for some of our most widely circulated reports,
while broadening our base of followers on social networks.
His infographics accompanying our 2015 Executive Excess
report were featured by Greenpeace USA and 350.org. He
has created digital materials promoting the Institute’s major
accomplishments with our Giving Tuesday campaign and Year
In Review highlights.
Eric will pursue a Master's in City Planning at MIT in the fall
of 2016.
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cecilia velasco
new mexico fellow
During her time as a New Mexico fellow, Cecilia Velasco
focused on issues of immigration and education policy.
Cecilia wrote a series of op-eds for OtherWords that were
published in newspapers throughout the country, including her
firsthand experience of the 100-woman pilgrimage from York,
Pennsylvania to Washington, DC for immigration reform.
Cecilia also dedicated much of her time at IPS to our
leadership development programs. She created a proposal for
the implementation of an IPS Associate Board, participated
as a New Economy Maryland fellow and played a vital role
in launching our Next Leaders program. She was also crucial
in the planning and execution of our 2015 Letelier-Moffitt
Awards ceremony.
IDEAS
INTO
community leaders fellowship
ACTION:
In 2015, the Institute’s Boston-based Community
Leaders Fellowship was able to bring together
twelve stellar leaders who wanted to invest more
permanently in their communities – from Annie
Hamilton who launched the Time Exchange,
which connects more than 200 neighbors, to
Sobeida Pena who organized the first ever
Spanish-language overview of JP NET.
BUILDING THE
NEXT GENERATION
OF PROGRESSIVE
LEADERS
The fellows supported the Cancer Free Economy
project, which helped Jamaica Plain’s Salcedo
Auto Center stop using lead and switch to toxinfree materials. They forged a partnership with
the Jamaica Plains Adult Learning Program to
help English language learners connect with
the broader community and access mutual aid
networks. Others worked at the Boston Food
Forest, supporting harvest parties and garden
raisings in neighborhood yards.
Communications fellow Jeanette Origel worked with New
England New Economy Transitions director Sarah Byrnes to
publish A Tale of Two Supermarkets - an article that makes
the argument that gentrification systematically undermines
people who are working hard to improve their communities.
next leaders program
student debt action fellows
In 2015, IPS intentionally bucked the trend of unpaid
internships and offered a new and diverse cohort of fourteen
Next Leaders paid internship positions. We made this move
not only because we believe in fair compensation for labor,
but also because we know that unpaid internships reduce the
participation of potential change-makers of color and people
from low-income communities.
Summer 2015 saw the launch of a new internship program
created by Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie at the Institute’s
Boston office, in partnership with the Neighborhood
Assistance Corporation of America (NACA). Student Debt
Summer brought a dozen young leaders to study, organize,
and advocate around an issue that is considered by millennials
to be among the top political crises facing the country today.
The students staged protests at for-profit colleges, like ITT
Tech, that are defrauding veterans and other groups by
providing substandard education at an extremely high cost,
both on their campus and at their corporate headquarters.
The summer interns produced original research focusing on
how to fund debt-free college and eliminate student debt.
Participants in the program have gone on to engage in
student activism on campus and with groups like the Student
Labor Action Projection, the student wing of close IPS ally,
Jobs with Justice.
Out of an applicant pool of 500, we selected a brilliant
and diverse group of young activists to participate in a
comprehensive skills training and progressive frameworks
curriculum. Over 10 weeks, we exposed this first cohort to the
practice of public scholarship and positioned them for longlasting careers in our social justice community. They published
15 pieces of writing and research that have been cited in
notable places, such as “Morning Reads” by Bill Moyers and in
the National Journal. IPS helped more than half of them find
jobs or receive scholarships or awards of recognition within
our social justice community and among the Institute’s closest
allies.
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INTO
ACTION:
labor movement pushes, yet again, to get more black
IN THE NEWS
in
women in charge
marc bayard
may
10, 2015
http:// www.buzzfeed.com/ coralewis/ labor-movement-pushes-for-more-black-women-in-charge#.mjNv7QB2M
2015, ips experts appeared on dozens of television and radio
cuban flag over the new embassy in washington signals
shows, wrote hundreds of op-eds, were quoted in dozens of
a victory shared by american advocates
newspapers, and our studies were covered in thousands of
phyllis bennis
media outlets around the world. here is a brief sample:
july
21, 2015
http:// www.washingtonpost.com/ blogs/ style-blog/ wp/2015/07/21/ cuban-flag-over-the-new-embassy-in-washingtonsignals-a-victory-for-american-advocates/
the european union may be on the verge of collapse
35 soul-crushing facts about american income
john feffer
january
27, 2015
inequality
sarah anderson
http:// www.thenation.com/article/196193/ european-union-may-be-verge-collapse/
july
netanyahu side-steps white house in bid to sabatoge
[sic ] iran talks
pope francis has a big to-do list for world leaders
phyllis bennis
january
sanho tree & phyllis bennis
22, 2015
september
http:// www.commondreams.org/ news/2015/01/22/ netanyahu-side-steps-white-house-bid-sabatoge-iran-talks
the coal industry is hurting, but its execs are still
marjorie wood
9, 2015
getting raises
sarah anderson
http:// www.ipsnews.net/2015/02/ youth-unemployment-income-inequality-keep-rising/
september
one chart that shows just how ridiculously huge wall
100 ceos have more in retirement savings than 41
sarah anderson
17, 2015
percent of americans combined
sarah anderson
http:// www.vox.com/2015/3/17/8233343/ one-chart-that-shows-just-how-ridiculously-huge-wall-street-bonuses
october
all you need to know about income inequality, in one
the wealthiest dozen Americans own more than the
sarah anderson
13, 2015
bottom half
josh hoxie & chuck collins
http:// www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/ upshot/ wall-street-bonuses-vs -total-earnings-of-full-time-minimum-wage-workers.
html
december
mitchell: shooting of unarmed black man in s.c. makes
karen dolan
8, 2015
http:// chicago.suntimes.com/ mary-mitchell/7/71/511221/ shooting-unarmed-black-man-video
5 ways it's become a crime to be poor in america,
punishable by further impoverishment
karen dolan
april
26, 2015
http:// www.alternet.org/ economy/5-ways -its-become-crime-be-poor-america-punishable-further-impoverishment
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2, 2015
http://america.aljazeera.com/ opinions/2015/12/ the-wealthiest-dozen-americans-own-more-than-the-bottom-half.html
case for video cameras
april
30, 2015
http:// www.motherjones.com/ politics/2015/10/ top-100-ceos-retirement-savings-racial-inequality
comparison
march
2, 2015
http:// time.com/ money/4020724/ coal-industry-executive-pay/
street bonuses are
march
25, 2015
http:// www.refinery29.com/2015/09/94611/ united-nations-pope-francis -new-york-visit-climate-speech
youth unemployment, income inequality keep rising
february
15, 2015
http:// www.salon.com/2015/07/15/35_soul_crushing_facts_about_american_income_inequality_partner/
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FINANCIALS
THANK YOU
2015
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