Growing divide

Despite Obama taking office, the tax cuts from previous administrations still remain! You can take a strong stand by redirecting your personal tax cut from last year toward tax fairness organizing efforts.

Presenter:   Steve Schnapp, hosted by the Community Health Education Center (CHEC)

Nearly 42 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., how close are we to realizing the ideals he represented - for social and economic equality for people of all races? Bob Herbert comments in The New York Times on how well, or poorly, we as a nation uphold Dr. King's campaign for economic justice, and cites UFE's State of the Dream 2010.

UFE has been publishing State of the Dream reports annually since 2004. Each report has a different theme, all focused on issues of importance to communities of color and to the nation as a whole. Read all of these reports, including our renowned 2009 report, The Silent Depression, our groundbreaking 2008 report, Foreclosed, and the latest in the series, State of the Dream 2010: Drained.

Join us this May at the Highlander Center for the Popular Economics Education Institute - an intensive Bilingual Training of Trainers for activists working for social and economic justice.

Who Owns What & Why it Matters is a workshop that looks at stock ownership & family savings on class, race, and gender dimensions.

Desigualdad Económica: Otra Economía es Posible

Camp Cedar Glen, Julian, CA (northeast of San Diego)

A workshop brilliantly presented by UFE's Jeannette Huezo sparked the creation of the All Souls Community Forum, which aims to raise public awareness of issues involving social and environmental justice.

Washington state's unemployment numbers show that a turnaround in the labor market is still out of sight - especially for people of color. UFE's 2009 State of the Dream report is cited in this article in the Sky Valley Chronicle.

UFE's Mazher Ali & Sarah Burris of Future Majority to co-lead a discussion on the impacts of the economic crisis on the housing market at the 2009 A Better Deal conference hosted by Demos.