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Who Has the Power? Fighting for Economic Justice

More Information

AFSCME's web site offers a wealth of information on the issues we cover in this training, including:

• Budget and Taxes,
• Privatization and the Privatization Update Blog, updated daily,
• Retirement Security, including AFSCME's Shareholder Program,
• Health Benefits, and 
• Our campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, restoring workers' right to organize unions.

The Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America provides facts and analysis on the economy that you won't get from the business report.

AFL-CIO fact sheets on the union difference: union workers' advantages in wages, health care and pensions.

The AFL-CIO reveals outrageous CEO compensation at Executive PayWatch.

Find out how your elected leaders represent you with AFSCME's Congressional Scorecard.

United for a Fair Economy has information and downloadable trainings on economic justice, raising awareness of the danger that concentrated wealth and power poses to the economy, democracy, and the racial divide.

Who Pays? shows that state and local taxes take a bigger bite out of poor people's incomes than the wealthy's, from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee has news and reports on how the economy is impacting America's working families.

Talking Taxes Blog for information and opinions on tax policy, from our friends at Citizens for Tax Justice.

Learn which corporations deny workers' rights to form a union and which employers have joined in successful partnerships with unions and their employees at American Rights at Work.

Have some fun while you fight for an economy that works for us. Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons and Mark Fiore political cartoon videos make you laugh while they make a point.

Take Action

Join AFSCME's E-Activist Network to advocate for the Employee Free Choice Act and stopping runaway CEO pay. New campaigns and efforts are launched every month.

Register to vote.

Find your elected officials with AFSCME's ZIP code lookup tool.

Contact your AFSCME affiliate to join PEOPLE.

Want to learn how to be a better advocate for economic justice? Take our AFSCME Leadership Academy course on "The Power of Grassroots Lobbying" to learn the nuts and bolts of lobbying, and to see why AFSCME members make the best lobbyists in the labor movement.

Get connected with our allies, tax and budget activists in your state:

• Economic Policy Institute's EARN State Organizations
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' SFAI State Organizations
• United for a Fair Economy's Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative.

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