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Join a broad coalition of equity advocates in a National Call-in Day on Transportation.
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Improving Healthy Food Access
Exciting news -- $77 million has been allocated for Healthy Food Financing Initiative!
Exciting news -- $77 million has been allocated for Healthy Food Financing Initiative!
Fostering Equitable Foreclosure Recovery
This report provides essential information to inform policy discussions about foreclosure recovery.
This report provides essential information to inform policy discussions about foreclosure recovery.
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News coverage including Angela Glover Blackwell on PBS NewsHour with Jeffrey Brown and Huffington Post commentaries
News coverage including Angela Glover Blackwell on PBS NewsHour with Jeffrey Brown and Huffington Post commentaries
Youth-Led "Teach-In" in Oakland
Advocates mobilizing people around the critical challenges – and opportunities – facing boys and men of color across the state.
Advocates mobilizing people around the critical challenges – and opportunities – facing boys and men of color across the state.
Webinar: Equitable Strategies for Growing Urban Agriculture
Focuses on strategies for growing and sustaining urban agriculture projects in low-income communities and communities of color, February 16, 2:00pm ET
Focuses on strategies for growing and sustaining urban agriculture projects in low-income communities and communities of color, February 16, 2:00pm ET
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"Most Americans like to think of themselves as being in the middle; many Americans understand they’re in a very vulnerable place right now. The notion that people in poverty really have a safety net is just wrong, and it smacks of a 'let them eat cake' posture, not really understanding the depth of the problem, not understanding how to get out of it, but not understanding the impact on society. The people who are being left behind now -- white people in rural communities, Latinos, African Americans – will make up the future population. Almost half of all children now are children of color – they will be half by the end of this decade. With high levels of poverty the future is not bright for America if we do not deal with poverty and the people who are being left behind."
--PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell, "How Strong Is Safety Net for Poor Americans," PBS NewsHour