In cooperation with PolicyLink, a research institute, and the University of Southern California, the Bay Area Equity Atlas has been created at https://bayareaequityatlas.org to improve the lives of the working-class and minority residents in the region.
May was Mental Health Awareness Month—a critical time to increase public awareness around mental health and fight stigmas that prevent so many people from accessing the services they need. Addressing this stigma is particularly important within the Black community, as African-Americans are 20 percent more likely to report “having serious psychological distress” than white people.
Restorative justice is a practice of addressing wrongdoing by engaging both the victim and perpetrator of a crime in a structured dialogue, usually with members of their social circle and community in the same room.
- Read more about Restorative Justice Weighed as Alternative for Addressing Domestic Violence Disputes
After some 30 months, the San Francisco Police Department has completed a mere 4 percent of the recommendations — 11 of 272 — the U.S. Department of Justice handed down in 2016, according to a recently released report.
Pittsburgh City Council members Ricky Burgess and Daniel Lavelle on Tuesday introduced a package of legislation aimed at addressing racial and housing inequities, including hiring a full-time policy analyst to work in conjunction with the mayor’s office.
Densely populated cities—many of which already face displacement pressures and offer limited opportunities for low-income communities—are bracing themselves. An estimated $7 trillion in investments are anticipated to flow to low-income census tracts through Opportunity Zone tax incentives.
You can see it in the Red for Ed teachers’ mobilizations and the recent strikes to defend public education, in Black Lives Matter, in the Women’s March, in the thousands of Indivisible groups built since 2016, among the Parkland students and their March for Our Lives organizing. This spring, I am working as an Innovation Fellow with PolicyLink to help think through how to stop the Koch juggernaut and fix the chronic problems of our democracy that enabled it to get this far so that we can finally achieve racial and economic equity and environmental and social sustainability.
Most people don’t understand that 70% of outstanding child support debt in California is owed to the government—not to children. And that low-income parents in California make hundreds of millions of dollars in child support payments each year that never go to their children. That’s because we require low-income parents to pay back the cost of public assistance used by low-income mothers and children. This inequitable system takes money away from children in poverty, sets low-income parents up to fail and discourages parents from making payments at all.