Wealth / Income Justice
This paper examines the problem of corporate tax avoidance through the use of international tax havens. It launches from a simple question asked repeatedly over the last decade: why do I pay more in taxes than a corporation like Apple?
Corporate Racial Justice Washing: Explaining Corporate America's coalition with racism's meta script
“Blackout Tuesday” featured abnormal corporate responses to the murder of George Floyd. Specifically, Fortune 500 companies made statements that expressed their alleged support of the black community and a belief that black lives matter. This critique aims to explain this
This paper seeks to contextualize the history of corporations by revealing its ties to slavery and the cotton industry in the early nineteenth century. By revealing the ways corporations legitimized racial hierarchies, we better equip ourselves to addressing modern-day instances
From Individual Failing to Corporate Crisis: How America Identified the Cause of the Opioid Epidemic
In 2018, 30% of Americans said drug abuse was an issue in their families. But because the opioid epidemic had whiter, wealthier victims than previous drug crises, the dominant narrative changed from viewing drug users as criminals to seeing them
Unhealthy diets are extremely common in America, and they directly affect people’s health and wellbeing. Most people assume that poor diets are driven entirely by poor choices, but this narrative does not adequately account for the role of “Big Food”—the
Corporations have captured the United States’ redistricting process and are bankrolling partisan efforts to gerrymander electoral districts across the country. This paper offers an in-depth look at gerrymandering, its devastating consequences for democracy, and how corporate power power has increased systematic disenfranchisement and led