2: Justice
Spearhead a campaign of labor, religious, small business, and other activists to rein in extreme inequality Other Information:
The world’s wealth derives in large part from resources that belong to all of its people. Thus, extreme income inequality
is both unfair and unsustainable. All people have rights to fair wages, a decent living and other rights set forth in the
UN’s International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Institute’s work explicitly links the welfare of
people in the United States to the welfare of people in impoverished countries and emphasizes the need to reverse the global
policies accelerating inequality. Our annual CEO pay analysis dramatizes the obscene extremes of inequality. IPS also addresses
and explains reckless trade and investment policies that drive the global “race to the bottom.” Boosted by the media blitz
surrounding our annual “Executive Excess” report, IPS is spearheading a campaign of labor, religious, small business, and
other activists to rein in extreme inequality. At the international level, we’re building a broad coalition to end child labor
and establish worker rights on Liberian rubber plantations; helping average Americans understand how impoverished country
debts undermine U.S jobs, security and the environment; and promoting more just and sustainable alternatives to “free trade.”
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