Popular Economics Education

The Popular Economics Education program at UFE supports movement-building for economic justice. The education team designs educational activities that draw on people's lived experiences, then implements them in participatory workshops, which are available for download. You may also request a facilitator to give a workshop at your site.

The educational materials and workshops we provide are tools to expose economic inequality and its cost to society, and they inspire participants to take action to close the growing economic divide. Continue...

REGISTER NOW: Training of Trainers | Baltimore, June 2012

April 6, 2012

Education is crucial to the success of the rejuvenated organizing and mobilizing that is taking place with the Occupy movement. Join UFE's next Training of Trainers Institute in Baltimore this June to help expand this work to build a powerful and more sustained movement for economic justice.

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Interview with a Popular Educator: Ty dePass (2 of 2) 06.17.11	11 Things the Richest U.S. Households Can Buy That You Can’t 06.09.11

Projects

Estate and Federal Taxes

Campaigns that strive to expand public conversations and influence policy makers on key federal tax policy and economic issues.

Responsible Wealth

A network of over 700 individuals who are among the wealthiest five percent of Americans who advocate for fair taxes and corporate accountability.

Popular Economics Education

A series of participatory workshops that transform economic statistics into engaging learning experiences to move people to action.

Racial Wealth Divide

Provides resources that deepen understanding about boundaries to economic parity among communities of color.

Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative

A network of 28 state-level advocacy groups that promote fair and adequate taxation at the state and federal levels through grassroots organizing.