Economic Justice

AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States, representing nearly 15 million workers across 63 national and international labor unions. It strives to ensure all working people are treated fairly, with decent paychecks and benefits, safe jobs, dignity, and equal opportunities. It advances legislation to create good jobs by investing tax dollars in schools, roads, bridges, ports and airports, and improving the lives of workers through education, job training and a livable minimum wage. It advocates for strengthening Social Security and private pensions, ensuring fair tax policies, and making high-quality, affordable health care available to all. 

Center for Popular Democracy

This progressive political advocacy group empowers communities to create an inclusive, equitable society where people of color, immigrants, working families, women, and LGBTQ communities thrive together. It's working to build a national campaign for a strong economy, combat wage theft to ensure paid sick time for all workers, fight against forced arbitration, raise the minimum wage, and restore a fair work week.

Coalition on Human Needs

The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations. Its members include civil rights, religious, labor, and professional organizations, service providers and those concerned with the well being of children, women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

Economic Policy Institute

The Economic Policy Institute’s vision is an economy that is just and strong, sustainable, and equitable—where every job is good, every worker can join a union, and every family and community can thrive.

Fight for a Union

This campaign of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) evolved from the Fight for $15 movement and strives to ensure every worker, regardless of their industry, has the freedom and right to form a union and bargain for better wages, working conditions, and benefits.

The Greenlining Institute

The Greenlining Institute works toward a future where communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity, and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change.

Groundwork Collaborative

This progressive advocacy group fights to change economic policy and narratives in order to build public power, break up concentrations of private power, and deliver true opportunity and prosperity for all.

Industrial Workers of the World

Established in 1905, this labor union represents nearly 9,000 workers across North America and is known for its high standards of democracy, transparency, multinationalism, and active use of the right to strike. Its membership is open to workers from all industries and companies, rather than just one organization or particular sector. It promotes the creation of “One Big Union” and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy.

Inequality.org

Inequality.org has been tracking inequality-related news and views for nearly two decades. A project of the Institute for Policy Studies since 2011, the site aims to provide information and insights for readers ranging from educators and journalists to activists and policy makers.

Institute for Policy Studies

With more than 60 years of groundbreaking public scholarship, this is the oldest multi-issue progressive research organization in the nation, and remains dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society through partnerships with dynamic social movements and a legacy of mentorship.

Jobs With Justice

Since its founding in 1987, Jobs With Justice has been winning campaigns that build power for working people; advancing a sustainable and powerful network of grassroots coalitions; supporting the growth and leadership of local leaders and activists; and developing strategic alliances nationally and globally that strengthen the movement for workers’ rights, economic justice, and democracy.

National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ)

The National Center for Law and Economic Justice is a group of advocates and lawyers committed to advancing economic, racial, and disability justice for low-income families, individuals, and communities across the country. Founded in 1965 by Edward V. Sparer at Columbia University, it has fought for six decades to ensure the United States meets the fundamental needs of all its residents.

National Coalition for the Homeless

The National Coalition for the Homeless is comprised of staff, volunteers, board members, and concerned citizens who all share the view that everyone should have a home. It is led by people who themselves have experienced homelessness in some form, and have lived expertise on how to solve the root causes of homelessness.

People’s Action

People’s Action is a national network of 38 member-based, power-building organizations across 29 states with more than a million members and tens of thousands of national volunteers. It is dedicated to building a better future for all, no matter what you look like, who you love, or what language you speak.

People’s World

People’s World provides a daily news platform for the broad labor-led people's movement—giving a voice to workers, the unemployed, people of color, immigrants, women, youth, seniors, the LGBTQ community, cultural workers, students, and people living with disabilities. It provides news and analysis of, by, and for the labor and democratic movements to readers across the country and around the world. With a small but dedicated staff, freelance contributors, and a nationwide network of volunteer writers, People’s World presents insights into local, national, and international struggles from the perspectives of those who are experiencing them—an angle you won’t find in the corporate press.

Progressive Labor Party

This U.S. communist political organization promotes the destruction of capitalism and the dictatorship of the capitalist class. It strives to organize workers, soldiers and youth into a revolutionary movement for communism with the collective goal of establishing an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, worker-run society.

Roosevelt Institute

The Roosevelt Institute is a think tank, a student network, and the nonprofit partner to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that, together, are learning from the past and working to redefine our collective future. Focusing on corporate and public power, labor and wages, and the economics of race and gender inequality, it unifies experts, invests in young leaders, and advances progressive policies that bring the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt into the 21st century.

United for a Fair Economy

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power that corrupts democracy, deepens the racial divide, and tears communities apart. It utilizes popular economics education, trainings, and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Unrig Our Economy

Unrig Our Economy is a campaign to fix the rules of the U.S. economy to make it work for working people. It's fighting for working Americans and holding corporations, their wealthy executives, and the politicians who enable them accountable.

Woodstock Institute

Woodstock Institute is a leading nonprofit research and policy organization in the areas of fair lending, wealth creation, and financial systems reform. It works locally and nationally to create a financial system in which lower-wealth persons and communities of color can safely borrow, save, and build wealth so that they can achieve economic security and community prosperity. The group's key tools include applied research, policy development, coalition building, and technical assistance.

Working America

Founded in 2003, Working America is the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, and works to ensure the priorities of working people, their families, and communities are heard from the state house to the White House.