Poverty
Poverty & Employment Charts
by bob ()These charts are part of our report Foreclosed: State of the Dream 2008. Find more charts here.
Income Inequality Hits Record Levels
by Anonymous ()INCOME INEQUALITY HITS RECORD LEVELS, NEW CBO DATA SHOW:
Incomes rose $180,000 for top 1 percent in 2005, but Just $400 for middle-income households. Read more...
UFE Workshop: Race, Class, and Wealth in the United States
by bob ()Students will engage in an interactive workshop that aims to help teach them about race, class, and wealth distribution in the United States.
Triple Threat: Racism, Economic Exploitation and War
by bob ()
Fair Play Newsletter – Summer 2007
by bob (- Activism/Actions
- Asset Building
- Corporate Accountability
- Poverty
- Racial Wealth Divide
- Shareholder actions
Poverty: Of the Wallet, or of the Spirit? | UFE Contributes to National Poverty Task Force | Economics As If People Mattered, 2007 | Q&A with Peter Edelman, Contributor to the Center for American Progress Poverty Task Force | The Poor Pay More and Shareholders Hold their Noses | New Immigration Workshop | Western Union Pressured on Excessive Remittance Fees | Putting Pressure on Predatory Lending in Louisiana | All Aboard the Asset Train | Holding the Dems to Task | The Estate Tax—at Issue in Congress and in White House Race | Tax Cut Madness Continues
About Economia Justa
by Ben (- Activism/Actions
- Fair tax
- Financial Literacy
- Free trade
- Globalization
- Growing divide
- Immigration
- Living wage
- Movement support
- Popular education
- Poverty
Unidos por una Economía Justa es una organización nacional, independiente, no partidaria y sin fines de lucro. Unidos por una Economía Justa concientiza y educa sobre que la riqueza concentrada y el poder debilitan la economía, corrompen la democracia, profundizan la division racial y destruyen las comunidades. Nosotros apoyamos y ayudamos a construir movimientos sociales por una mayor igualdad.
Tax Pride Day (Op-ed)
by bob (- Policy
- Popular education
- Poverty
- Predatory Lending
- Progressive tax
- Racial justice
- Racial Wealth Divide
- Regulation
- Reports
- Revenue
As Americans get ready to pay their taxes this month, we ought to declare April 15 "Tax Pride Day." In the face of all the greed and laying up of treasure going on all around us in our consumerist society, let's celebrate those who want a good government that provides all citizens with opportunity and essential services. Our taxes pay for such a government. Why not celebrate the shared investment we all make?
Report: People of Color Vote Blue, But Stay in the Red
by bob ()A new UFE report finds that while people of color support Democrats in the voting booth, they are still waiting for policies and programs that close the economic gap between them and whites.
Senate Will Try to Kill Estate Tax Tomorrow
by bob ()The Senate will vote on repeal of the estate tax (H.R. 8) June 8, 2006. Long-time proponents of estate tax preservation Chuck Collins and Lee Farris from United for a Fair Economy, will be available to comment on the implications of repeal, the eighteen families bankrolling the repeal effort, and proposals to modify the estate tax.
Economic Apartheid in America
by bob ()In ECONOMIC APARTHEID IN AMERICA: A PRIMER ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND INSECURITY (The New Press; October 31, 2005; $18.95), Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel argue persuasively that increased levels of inequality in income, wages, wealth and power are in fact creating an apartheid society, not just economically but racially as well. They show how these rules - including tax, global trade, monetary and budget policy, campaign finance, wage-setting practices, and business regulations - can be changed to benefit low-wage workers and others left out of the boom.
