UnidosUS’s 2026 Economic Prosperity Agenda
This spring, we unveiled our Economic Prosperity Agenda, thanks in large part to support from donors like you. As you may recall from prior issues of your Unidos Impact newsletter, we’ve spent meaningful time over many months collecting insight from Latinos across the United States to inform our agenda—a values-based framework grounded in communities’ voices and organized around four pillars: housing, jobs, small business and entrepreneurship, and family security.
The agenda is designed to propel Latino families—and through them, all Americans—toward greater economic stability. Latinos represent 68 million people and 20% of the U.S. population; together they generate $4.1 trillion in economic output, larger than all but four national economies in the world. Investing in this community is a central strategy for America’s economic future.
Today, Latinos are the youngest, fastest-growing population; they are essential workers, small business owners, and community anchors. When Latinos succeed, everyone prospers. This agenda demands a shared future where an economy that works for Latinos works for everyone.
Our hope is that the agenda’s message to decision-makers, employers, funders, community leaders and our own people is this: Be bold enough to stand up for the life we want. Be brave enough to fight for it together.
Thanks to your dedicated support, we’ve been able to take this message on the road. From New Jersey to California, UnidosUS Affiliates, partners and community leaders are mobilizing to speak out and advance civil rights and economic prosperity.
In April, UnidosUS, along with partners National Urban League and Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW), convened “Dignity. Prosperity. Together. — A Community Town Hall on Economic Justice and Civil Rights” in Los Angeles.
Bringing together community members, workers, advocates and civic leaders around a shared conviction rooted in dignity, freedom and shared prosperity, the town hall connected the fight for economic opportunity to the civil rights legacy that has always demanded it. Importantly, all three organizations urged attendees to protect civil rights and advance economic prosperity by raising their voices, registering to vote and exercising their right to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.
We are proud to report that 86 organizations, from grassroots to national in scope, have endorsed our agenda with the goal of raising the visibility of the priorities it sets forth.
