Responsible Wealth

Responsible Wealth ImageResponsible Wealth, a project of UFE, is a network of over 700 business leaders and wealthy individuals in the top 5% of wealth and/or income in the US who use their surprising voice to advocate for fair taxes and corporate accountability. 

Join Us!  Use Your Voice

As a Responsible Wealth member, you can participate in a number of ways, including:

  • Write letters to the editor and/or op-eds.
  • Talk to the press about economic fairness issues (taxes, wage issues, budget issues, corporate accountability, etc.).
  • Take the Tax Fairness Pledge to redirect your Clinton and Bush-era tax cuts to tax fairness efforts.
  • Participate in our lobby days in Washington DC to preserve the estate tax.
  • Advocate progressive taxation at the state level.
  • Participate in our shareholder accountability work by filing resolutions, attending annual meetings or assigning your proxy for others to attend meetings.
  • Sponsor an organizer from your state to participate in one of UFE's Trainings of Trainers.
  • Network with other wealthy individuals and progressive business leaders at UFE and RW events.

The Latest

Wells Fargo Shareholder Resolution 2008
Racial disparities in Wells Fargo's 2006 HMDA data are pronounced. African-Americans were 3.69 times more likely than whites to receive a high cost loan and Latinos were 1.82 times more likely than whites. April 15, 2008

Western Union Shareholder Resolution 2008
The federal law known as the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) obligates federally insured banks and depository institutions to help meet the needs of communities in which they operate.  No such law exists for money transfer agencies like Western Union. April 15, 2008

April 15th: Gratitude Day (Op-ed)
As a former investment banker and successful private investor, I have more reasons than most to dislike tax day. But in my current role as a research psychologist, I'd like to offer my fellow high-income taxpayers some advice on why April 15th should be celebrated rather than feared. April 14, 2008

Investors Favored Over Wage Earners (Op-ed)
OVER THE LAST DECADE, nobody has gotten more love from Washington than investors. It's time to stop and ask if the love is misplaced. March 31, 2008

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