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United for a Fair Economy (UFE)
| 29 Winter Street Boston, MA 02108 |
phone: 617-423-2148 email: info@faireconomy.org website: www.faireconomy.org |
United for a Fair Economy is a national, independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.
This workshop helps participants critically examine the way in which race shapes the distribution of resources and privilege in the U.S. We use several participatory activities and dialogue to analyze the role of government in supporting (for people of European descent) or blocking (for people of color) the accumulation of assets and, in effect, helped create economic apartheid in the U.S. The workshop also reviews strategies, campaigns, and actions that will help close the racial wealth divide and promote create greater economic equality in general.
The "Closing the Racial Wealth Divide" workshop includes participatory activities that:
- Engage participants in dialogue about their own economic lives
- Illustrate income trends by race
- Illustrate wealth trends by race
- Examine a "structural" analysis of wealth inequality
- Review policies that shaped the accumulation of assets historically
- Identify strategies and actions to close the wealth gap
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Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese
Cost: Free
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