We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit, non-partisan research and educational organization focused on corporate and government accountability. Our mission is to facilitate and produce investigative research that empowers citizens to hold their leaders accountable. Research and analysis by PAI has been cited in major media outlets.

New Report! The Public Accountability Initiative and National People's Action have released a new report, Big Bank Tax Drain: How Wall Street Speculation and Tax Avoidance are Starving Public Revenues. This report analyzes tax data from the six biggest banks to expose the ways in which they avoid taxes, drain government revenues, and deepen the economic crisis for millions of unemployed and foreclosed-on Americans.

PAI has developed LittleSis.org, an "involuntary Facebook" of powerful people and organizations. The site brings transparency to networks of influence, tracking the key relationships between politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated organizations. Information on LittleSis derives from government filings, news articles, and other reputable sources. Some data sets are updated automatically; the rest is filled in by an online community of researchers. LittleSis is an open source web application and its data is available for free through the LittleSis API.

Co-Directors
Kevin Connor
Matthew Skomarovsky 		Contact 718.916.0925
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