Research Posts Archive - Action Center on Race and the Economy

A Philly that Works for Everyone

A Philly that Works for Everyone: The Wealth to Fund Our City Exists When we don’t tax the rich, our communities are forced to foot the bill, widening the racial pay gap and hurting Black and Brown Philadelphians the most.

Untangling Discrimination

How Temporary Staffing Agencies Rely on a Racist Business Model to Discriminate Today’s temporary work landscape emerges from a history of racist labor practices dating back to slavery and sharecropping. The earliest iteration of temporary staffing agencies sold slave labor

Murdered Behind the Wheel

Murdered Behind the Wheel: An Escalating Crisis for App Drivers - Spring 2023 At least 31 app-based workers, primarily people of color, were murdered while working.

Passing the Buck

Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas touts his record of balancing budgets and fiscal responsibility, but a close look at his financial policies as the Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) shows a pattern of kicking financial problems down the road and leaving future generations of schoolchildren with the bill.

DHS Open for Business

Since its founding, DHS has relied on a state of “emergency” to carry out its operations. Twenty years later, this state of “emergency” has not ended and immigration policing, “national security,” and surveillance have become big business.

Fidelity’s Fossil Fuel Problem

Fidelity’s lagging on climate and environmental justice issues comes as less of a surprise given its extremely close - but largely unscrutinized - ties to the fossil fuel industry, specifically at the heights of the firm’s ownership and governance.

Vanguard’s Empty Promises

This report (1) critiques Vanguard’s governance practices and charitable giving vehicles and (2) highlights how Vanguard’s loose definitions of social justice and inadequate screening tools allow capital to be deployed to extractive industries via funds touted as both environmentally and socially responsible.