Workshops

The Growing Divide Workshop

Ben — Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:02:23 -0800

United for a Fair Economy has designed a very effective set of presentations and workshops called "The Growing Divide: Inequality and the Roots of Economic Insecurity." It has been adapted and refined over the course of more than 1,100 presentations to groups around the nation. The Workshop includes:

Closing the Racial Wealth Divide

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:23:51 -0700

Closing the Racial Wealth Divide

In 1900, the great African American scholar W.E.B. DuBois predicted that "the problem of the twentieth century" would be "the problem of the color line," the unequal relationship between the lighter and darker races of humankind. Today, the economic divide between white people and people of color remains disastrously wide. This "economic apartheid" is not natural nor unchangeable. Instead, it is the outcome of policies, largely governmental, that confer disproportionate

Fair Taxes for All

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:34:40 -0700

Fair Taxes for All Workshop

This 30-90 minute workshop is the perfect way to get up to speed on the tax cut debates in Congress this spring. The workshop includes instructions for participatory activities plus flipcharts with the details about the 2001 Bush tax cut, tax trends in the last 50 years, and the impact of these changes on our families and communities. In addition, the workshop explores the role of taxation in supporting the common good, and exposes the political and social agenda driving the changes in the tax rules.

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The Massachusetts Budget Crisis

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:53:57 -0700

The Massachusetts Budget Crisis: Who Hurts? Who Pays?

This 60-90 minute, interactive workshop reviews the Massachusetts budget and the current crisis, considers how the worsening budget crisis has impacted our life and the lives of people we know, demonstrates that unwise tax cuts in the 1990s was a major cause of the current budget crisis, and explores opportunities to advocate for closing the capital gains tax loophole as a crucial way to raise revenue to deal with the budget shortfall.
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War and the Economy

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:01:15 -0700

War and the Economy Workshop

This is a workshop about economic inequality, not about the morality of war & militarism. We see a cycle of concentrated wealth and concentrated power in the U.S. intensified by the emphasis on militarism.

Workshop goals:

High Pay, Low Pay, Fair Pay!

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:06:16 -0700

High Pay, Low Pay, Fair Pay! Workshop

A highly interactive workshop for youth that looks at recent trends in income, engages participants in a role play to explore the factors and values that should determine wages, and reviews action steps to address economic inequality.

Download the workshop in PDF format for free. Here's what you get:
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Training of Trainers Institute

bob — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:30:30 -0800

Training of Trainers Institute (TOT)

April 24 - 27, 2008
Cape Cod, MA
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NEW: Immigration and the Economy

bob — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:57:25 -0800

Immigration & The Economy

There is a growing clamor about our immigration "problem." But what are the facts about immigration? What is pushing and pulling workers and families to leave their homeland and emigrate to the U.S.? Who benefits from rules that allow in some workers and criminalize others? What do foreign-born and domestic workers have in common? How can we evaluate proposed immigration "reforms"?
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