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 Monday, September 19, 2016 IPS Marks 40th Anniversary of Letelier-Moffitt Assassination On September 21, 1976, agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet carried out a brutal car bombing in the heart of the U.S. capital. Killed in the attack were two colleagues at the Institute for Policy Studies: Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States who had become one... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, September 01, 2016 Report: Taxpayers Have Subsidized $2 Billion in Wall Street Executive Bonuses Since 2012 A new Institute for Policy Studies report is the first to calculate how much taxpayers have been subsidizing executive bonuses at the nation's largest banks. The study focuses on a 1993 President Bill Clinton reform that was intended to rein in runaway CEO pay by capping the tax deductibility of... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, August 09, 2016 Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won’t Match Current Average White Wealth for Centuries If current federal wealth-building policies remain in place, it will take the average African-American family 228 years to amass the same amount of wealth that white families have today and it will take Latino families 84 years to reach that goal, according to a new report from the Corporation for... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, December 22, 2015 CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers A just-released report by the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies, CEO Stock(ing) Stuffers , identifies the 10 companies that benefited the most last year from a tax loophole that encourages excessive executive pay. Key findings: Ten corporations cut their 2014 tax... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, July 31, 2015 Climate Action Coalition Celebrates Historic Win in Raising Global Awareness on Urgency of Climate Crisis in #ShellNO Action in Portland In record heat, members and organizers with the Climate Action Coalition in Portland, OR, together with Greenpeace activists made history on Thursday when they forced the MSV Fennica, the Arctic icebreaker, to stand down, delaying its departure by approximately 40 hours. The Fennica is now headed... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 01, 2014 Darden’s Golden Goodbyes Three top Darden executives are leaving the embattled restaurant corporation with compensation valued at an estimated $68 million , according to a new Institute for Policy Studies report . CEO Clarence Otis, Jr., whose resignation announcement on July 28th sent the company’s stock price soaring,... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, September 22, 2014 Climate Marchers to Global Leaders: No Dirty Energy in the Green Climate Fund As world leaders prepared to announce their actions on climate yesterday, thousands of people flooded the streets of New York City calling for wealthy nations to put money into the Green Climate Fund and demanding that none of it goes to finance dirty energy. Heads of state are gathering at the... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, March 12, 2014 New Report on Wall Street Bonuses and the Minimum Wage The $26.7 billion in bonuses Wall Street banks handed out in 2013 would be enough to more than double the pay for all 1,085,000 full-time U.S. minimum wage workers, according to an Institute for Policy Studies analysis of New York State Comptroller bonus figures released this morning. Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, December 02, 2013 Fast Food CEOs Rake in Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay A new report reveals that fast food companies are pocketing massive taxpayer subsidies for CEO pay while working to keep low-level workers' wages so low that many must rely on public assistance. Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Platinum Plated Pensions: Loudest Calls for Social Security Cuts Coming from Lobby Groups Led by CEOs Fix the Debt is a PR and lobby machine launched in 2012 and led by more than 135 CEOs of major corporations. Seeking broad public support, this campaign has publicly couched their calls for reduced spending in vague euphemisms like “protecting and strengthening Social Security.” Read more |