Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice and the Environment. We strengthen social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars and elected officials. I.F. Stone once called IPS "the think tank for the rest of us." Since 1963, we have empowered people to build healthy and democratic societies in communities, the US, and the world. Click here to learn more, or read the latest below.
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Newswire article Tuesday, January 15, 2019 New Report Highlights How Surging Inequality Widens the Racial Wealth Divide Historic racial wealth disparities are being maintained or worsened by policies that have shifted wealth to the richest U.S. households, according to a new report released by the Institute for Policy Studies, Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1 Percent Widens the Racial Wealth Divide.” Key... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, November 19, 2018 New Report Exposes How Top-Heavy Philanthropy, like Bloomberg Gift, Imperils Independent Nonprofit Sector and Democracy Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion gift to John Hopkins University, is an alarming example of the problem identified in a new report, Gilded Giving 2018: Top-Heavy Philanthropy and Its Risks to the Independent Sector, co-authored by Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Helen Flannery of the Institute for... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, October 30, 2018 New Report Exposes Extreme Concentration of Wealth The new report “Billionaire Bonanza 2018: The Role of Dynastic Wealth,” by Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie of the Institute for Policy Studies, examines the growing concentration of wealth in the United States by taking a special look at 15 dynastically wealthy families on the Forbes 400 list combined... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 26, 2018 Wall Street Bonus Pool Dwarfs 'Tax Reform Bonuses' and Minimum Wage Earnings While Contributing to Gender Inequality Just-released figures from the New York State Comptroller show Wall Street banks handed out $31.4 billion in bonuses to their New York City-based employees for 2017 performance, up 17 percent over 2016. According to Institute for Policy Studies analysis of these figures: Wall Street bonuses v. ‘tax... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, February 20, 2018 In Landmark First CEO-Worker Pay Ratio Disclosure by a Large U.S. Corporation, Honeywell Reveals a 333:1 Gap between CEO and Typical Worker Pay Honeywell has become the first large U.S. corporation to report the ratio between its CEO and median worker compensation, in compliance with a new SEC regulation based on the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. For background on this new disclosure rule, see this Institute for Policy... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, November 30, 2017 New Report Underscores Massive Tax Giveaways to Private Jet Set The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) today released a comprehensive report highlighting the massive tax giveaways extended by the tax bill under consideration in Congress to the private jet industry. The report also looked at the significant security threats presented by private jets and the... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, August 07, 2017 Addressing Inequality at the Root: Almost half of all workers earn under $15 an hour and one in every seven Americans – 43 million people – live below the poverty line. A new report by the Next System Project, a project of the Democracy Collaborative, and the Institute for Policy Studies, “ Reversing Inequality: Unleashing the... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Wall Street Bonus Pool Dwarfs Minimum Wage Earnings and Contributes to Racial and Gender Inequality Just-released figures from the New York State Comptroller show Wall Street banks handed out $23.9 billion in bonuses to their New York City-based employees last year. According to an Institute for Policy Studies analysis of these figures: - The total bonus pool for 177,000 Wall Street employees was... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, December 16, 2016 Report: 100 CEOs Have as Much Retirement Wealth as 41% of All U.S. Families, 59% of African-American Families, and 75% of Latino Families The Institute for Policy Studies has just released dramatic figures on the retirement savings gap between those at the top of corporate America and the rest of us. The report, published at 7 pm Eastern on December 15, has received early coverage in USA Today , Bloomberg , Fortune , and Mother Jones... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, November 17, 2016 Report Warns of Increasingly "Top Heavy" Philanthropy A new report, “ Gilded Giving: Top Heavy Philanthropy in an Age of Extreme Inequality , ” authored by Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, and Josh Hoxie of the Institute for Policy Studies and Inequality.org, raises the specter of a philanthropic sector dominated by wealthy mega-donors and their... Read more |