Reports

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March 10, 2010

UFE's seventh annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day report has finally arrived! State of the Dream 2010: Drained - Jobless and Foreclosed in Communities of Color explores the U.S. racial economic divide in the wake of the Great Recession and spotlights a targeted policy approach as the best way to close that divide and rebuild our economy. Read the report now!

 

February 4, 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.

January 4, 2010

UFE's 2008 and 2009 State of the Dream reports are cited in this report, which calls for transparency, equity, and accountability in Florida's allocation of recovery funds.

October 6, 2009

A 2004 report, "I Didn't Do It Alone: Society's Contribution to Individual Wealth and Success," spotlights successful entrepreneurs and concludes that the myth of self-made success is destructive to the social and economic infrastructure that fosters wealth creation.

September 14, 2009

Our new report finds that people of color are being hurt by the economy far more than the general population.

January 15, 2009

Our 15th annual Labor Day report (with the Institute for Policy Studies) finds that tax subsidies directly related to executive pay total $20 billion. Average CEO pay is 344 times the pay of an average U.S. worker.

August 25, 2008

Executive Excess Reports

Our annual Labor Day report (with the Institute for Policy Studies) compares average CEO to the pay of an average US worker and looks at related issues and possible solutions.

2008: How Average Taxpayers Subsidize Runaway Pay (.pdf) Tax subsidies directly related to executive pay total $20 billion. Average CEO pay is 344 times the pay of an average U.S. worker.

May 30, 2008

Our annual Labor Day report (with the Institute for Policy Studies) finds that average CEO pay is 364 times the pay of an average U.S. worker. August 28, 2007

A new report finds that African-Americans in Baton Rouge were more than twice as likely to receive sub-prime home loans as non-minorities in 2005. The report is the second in a series of reports on Louisiana lending practices commissioned by the Louisiana Community Reinvestment Coalition (LCRC) and compiled by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) Research and Policy division. June 27, 2007