In 1968, the Center for the Study of Responsive Law was founded by a Lebanese-American who began a successful crusade against uncontrolled industrial practices and bureaucratic government agencies by focusing on a variety environmental, consumer and worker health and safety issues. The creation of an organization to represent the people as a whole, or the public interest, was a bold and innovative development in American politics at the time. He initiated a much-needed qualitative reform of the Industrial Revolution, characterized by consumer empowerment through information engagement that holds business, government, and other powerful institutions accountable to the American people. It has been nearly 50 years since Nader's example gave citizens across the nation the power to doubt, question, and fight for the public interest, paving the way for thousands of groups to continue and expand that cause, and today the public interest group is one of the last functional elements of our political system capable of influencing policy and regulation with only the good of the general public in mind; what constitutes “good for the general public” remains subjective, but in this context some public interest groups stand out for their morality, effectiveness and the broad nature of their issues, as evidenced by bipartisanship and cooperation with other groups public interest. Citizens for Tax Justice's role in tax reform began in 1984, when a Nader-trained lawyer, Robert McIntyre, discovered that 128 companies had avoided paying federal income taxes based on data extracted from their annual corporate reports. After the media latched onto a report published by Citizens for Tax Justice titled “Top Ten Corporate Scrooges,” for the f...... half of the paper ......6 tax reform debate on the Hill , the Senate Finance Committee, unknowingly, was poised to approve a tax credit for the working poor that was less liberal than the one favored by the House; the Center, in one day, produced a three-page memo demonstrating that the poor would be harmed and provided senators with a simple alternative to solve the problem, which was ultimately used.(4) Today, the Center focuses on fiscal issues, low-income programs, taxes, awareness campaigns, social insurance programs and reporting poverty and income trends effectively and realistically. “In a political environment riddled with ideological wars and poisoned by factionalism, the Center's ability to get things done sets it apart from . . .well, from almost everyone else in Washington."(5) Giving voice to poverty is or should be in line with our economic, social, and moral values ​​and responsibilities.