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Child Tax Credit Enhancements Under the American Rescue Plan

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families

President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan, includes a significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). The proposal provides a $125 billion boost in funding for the program, which would double the size of the existing federal credit for households...

2010 St. Louis Ordinance 68715 Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) Missouri

Source St. Louis City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Spaces, Housing, Public Safety, Education

The ordinance prohibits discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry in housing, employment, education, services, public accommodations, and real property transactions...

Recommendations for Title V Programs: Co-Creating an Equitable Future with the Wisdom of Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

Title V MCH Services Block Grant programs provide funding for three categories of essential services--direct, enabling, and public health services--but requires funded programs to be "family-centered, community-based and culturally competent." This report examines the methodologies...

Implementing Equitable Transit-Oriented Development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source SPARCC

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy, Housing, Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Viewing transit-oriented development (TOD) through an equity lens through every step along the process is essential. eTOD elevates and prioritizes community voice whether in efforts to avoid or stop displacement of community residents, local businesses, and culture or to ensure that...

The Property Tax Circuit Breaker: An Introduction and Survey of Current Programs

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2007

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This report provides an introduction to property tax circuit breakers and describes the main features of circuit breaker programs currently being administered in eighteen states. Some of the features discussed include eligibility restrictions (based on whether the taxpayer is a homeowner...

Transportation Access and Equity in San Francisco Unified School District: A Route to Success

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source U.C Berkeley Center for Cities & Schools

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Transportation & Mobility, Education

In 2010, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) approved a General Education Transportation Policy to help facilitate racial diversity within schools and to support equitable access to city-wide schools and programs. This report evaluates the implementation of transportation...

Seattle Executive Order 2014-03: Equity in City Contracting

Type Executive Order

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance

An Executive Order to affirm Seattle's commitment to equity in City contracting and to advance the City's mission to promote race and gender equity in contracting. This Executive Order directs City departments and offices to increase the opportunities for women and minority owned...

Who Participates in What Processes?: From Groupthink to Democracy in Bicycle Policy Advocacy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source The League of American Bicyclists

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

When setting the national bike advocacy agenda, the League of American Bicyclists believes that it is important to include a range of different perspectives, particularly from youth voices; not only does this empower younger participants, but it is a necessary first step toward championing...

LADWP Energy Efficiency Goal Principles Resolution

Type Executive Order

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Democracy & Governance

These guidelines outline the City of Los Angeles plan of action for achieving greater energy efficiency in an equitable way in order to combat climate change....

San Francisco Local Hiring Policy for Construction Fact Sheet

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This fact sheet briefly summarized San Francisco's Local Hiring Policy for Construction. It requires 30% of all project hours within each trade to be performed by local residents, and no less than 15% of all project work hours within each trade to be performed by disadvantaged workers....

Connecting Sacramento: A Trip-Making and Accessibility Study

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level State

State(s) California

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

As opposed to conventional data and metrics, this report uses newer data sources and more advanced analytic tools to study Sacramento’s transportation system. In particular, this report utilizes accessibility metrics to identify locations with poor connections to existing transit,...

Exploring Targeted Hire: An Assessment of Best Practices in the Construction Industry

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance

Public construction projects are an expenditure of public tax dollars; as such, public agencies have an opportunity to develop policies for public construction projects to benefit taxpayers with employment and business opportunities. Targeted hire initiatives create institutional...

A Framework for Effectively Engaging Youth and Schools in Inclusive Resilience Planning

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Cities & Schools

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces

Today’s youth are rarely invited into the city planning process. This paper examines the experiences of young people involved in Y-PLAN, an initiative focused on fostering relationships between civic leaders and young people around meaningful action in order to create resilient cities...

Key Elements of a Targeted Hiring Program

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families

Most targeted hiring programs include mechanisms that do two things: 1) Maximize the chances that workers from the targeted category who are already in the construction industry will get called to work on that job. 2) Create opportunities for new workers - aspiring apprentices who...

Social Equity in California Climate Change Grants: Making the Promise Real

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level -

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources

Climate change grant programs can provide multiple benefits, including improved air quality, lower electricity costs, improved health outcomes, and green job opportunities. However, these benefits often fail to reach low-income communities of color—even though these communities tend...

Mobility Equity Framework: How to Make Transportation Work for People

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

This report outlines a framework for mobility equity, or a transportation system that increases access to high quality mobility options, reduces air pollution, and enhances economic opportunity in low-income communities of color. Decades of local, regional, and state transportation...

Puget Sound Regional Equity Network: Principles of Equitable Development

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2013

Level City or Town, City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Puget Sound Regional Council And Impact Capital

Policy Areas Energy, Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Housing, Public Safety, Transportation & Mobility

Social Equity means all people can attain the resources and opportunities that improve their quality of life and enable them to reach their full potential. Addressing the history of inequities in the systems we work in and their on-going impacts in our communities is a shared responsibility....

Feel the Heat!: The Unrelenting Challenge of Young Black Male Unemployment

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Finance & Procurement, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Transportation & Mobility

The situation of high unemployment for black men is not new. It has persisted for decades, and scholars, sociologists, economists, policy makers, and advocates have brought attention to various aspects of this challenge and put forth solutions. Yet, it is seemingly an intractable...

How Local Leadership Can Drive Prosperity for All

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source SPARCC

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Health, Transportation & Mobility, Children & Families

This document looks through polling data ranging from the perception of the poor to public funds used for economic opportunity to the promotion of equity. The data collected and reported on in this document highlight the overwhelming support in public opinion for financing equity-driven...

Shortchanging Small Businesses: How Big Businesses Dominate State Economic Development Incentives

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance

An analysis of more than 4,200 economic development incentive awards in 14 states finds that large companies received dominant shares, ranging between 80 and 96 percent of their dollar values. The deals, worth more than $3.2 billion, were granted in recent years by programs that,...

Pathways Out of Poverty: Boys and Men of Color and Jobs in the Health Sector

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies, School District

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education

This report summarizes key opportunities and barriers for Boys and Men of Color(BMoC) in allied health professions. Through a literature review and interviews with key stakeholders, we have identified three areas — public K-12 education, the juvenile justice system, and men’s health...

State Options to Shore up Revenues and Improve Tax Codes amid Pandemic

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice

The devastating effect of COVID-19 on state and local budgets is exposing state and local tax structures as inadequate, inequitable, and outdated. In response, states should focus first on generating needed revenue through tax increases on households, businesses, and sectors of the...

Kindergarten to College: Local Innovation, National Impact

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source The Sallie Mae Fund

Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Designed to promote savings and economic mobility, Children's Savings Accounts (CSAs) are universal, longterm, asset-building accounts established for children with public seed money and that grow over time with additional deposits and earnings. San Francisco's Kindergarten to College...

Raising Revenue Through Municipal Corporate Taxation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Local Progress

Policy Areas -

The 2017 partisan tax reform law accelerated the United States’ rising inequality by slashing taxes of wealthy individuals and corporations and expanding the federal deficit, ultimately straining municipal budgets. In order to restore fairness to the tax code and generate revenue...

Green for Greens: Finding Public Funding for Healthy Food Retail

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Food, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

For millions of Americans, accessing healthy food is no easy matter. In low-income communities, liquor stores and gas stations proliferate, while farmers' markets are hard to find. Nationally, 11.5 million low-income people live in low-income areas where the nearest supermarket is...

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