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Coronavirus: Resources for State and Local Policy Advocates and Researchers
The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the health and economic well-being of people and families across the country. As federal, state, and local policymakers work to address the crisis, EARN groups and allied partners are supplying critical policy guidance, analysis, and recommendations.
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MD
We Must Keep our Promises to the Low-Wage Workers who Keep Maryland Communities Going
- June 11, 2020
- Maryland Center for Economic Policy
- MDCEP Staff
The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on Maryland communities’ deep reliance on the workers who keep families fed, care for aging adults, and maintain sanitary public spaces. Yet these same workers too often take home wages that cannot support a family, let alone compensate for the daily risks their jobs require. As policymakers respond […]
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COVID-19 responses
- March 23, 2020
- EARN Staff
EARN Groups across the country are assembling policy resources, guidance, and recommendations to help their state address the crisis. Read those materials here.
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OH
Black policy matters: Toward an antiracist policy agenda
- February 3, 2020
- Policy Matters Ohio
- Policy Matters Ohio staff
“There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.” (Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist, August 13, 2019) Since 2000, Policy Matters Ohio has provided an essential voice in […]