About Fair Share

MISSION

Fair Share stands for an America where everyone gets their fair share, does their fair share, and pays their fair share; and where everyone plays by the same rules.

OUR MODEL

We organize people to stand up and take action when the rules are rigged to favor the wealthy and powerful, or when big corporations cheat the system. And, we help elect leaders who will fight for opportunity for all of us to succeed—and help defeat those who stand in the way. 

A few of our victories:

Kids, Not Cuts!

During the budget sequester of 2013, Fair Share launched the Kids, Not Cuts! campaign to end the sequester and harmful budget cuts to education. Fair Share organizers knocked on 113,400 doors, spoke with 54,432 individuals, and gathered more than 22,000 petition signatures opposing federal education cuts. Congress ultimately approved a multi-year budget compromise that ended most of the sequester cuts and restored funding to Head Start.

Middle Class Tax Cuts First

Fair Share helped bring together more than 500 small businesses and community organizations to call for extending middle class tax cuts. After pressure was brought to bear, Senate leaders and the White House came together to work out a compromise deal to extend tax cuts on Americans’ income (up to $450,000 per family), preventing a New Year’s tax hike on America’s middle class. The compromise bill was signed into law by President Obama.

Big Money Out of Politics

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, Fair Share has worked to get big money out of politics. Nowhere has this work been more important than in Colorado, where Colorado Fair Share spearheaded a statewide effort to gather signatures for a ballot initiative calling on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment overturning the ruling. After Colorado Fair Share helped gather and deliver 177,000 signatures, voters overwhelmingly approved the measure.