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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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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 […]
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DC
Black Workers Matter: How the District’s History of Exploitation & Discrimination Continues to Harm Black Workers
- January 28, 2020
- DC Fiscal Policy Institute
- Doni Crawford and Kamolika Das
The District’s economy is strong on a number of important indicators such as employment, job growth, and increased wages, but the overall trends mask staggering racial inequalities. The District’s deep history of exploitation and discrimination against Black workers—including stolen labor when DC was a hub for slavery, restrictions of free Black workers to the lowest-paid […]