ProGov21 Policy Library

The Culver City Unified School District has created an "Equity Strategic Plan" to advance equity in governance, school curriculums, and the opportunities available to students. One of the most important goals outlined in their plan is to make ethnic and gender studies a more central...

Data from states and municipalities across the country suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting people of color in the United States. This report analyzes emerging data on deaths, unemployment, failing businesses, and wealth inequality to assess the links...

Across the midwest, conservative state lawmakers have increasingly used preemption—a tactic whereby a higher level of government limits or eliminates the power of a lower-level government to regulate an issue—to reduce the policy tools and power available to local lawmakers. This...

This report outlines the ways in which the privatization of public goods and services has harmed working-class communities and communities of color. Analysis from In The Public Interest identifies five ways mechanisms of privatization that disproportionately hurt poor individuals...

Dallas’ regional economy is robust and growing yet is facing a crisis of economic inequality which corresponds with racial inequality. South Dallas, where the population is overwhelmingly people of color, suffers from high rates of poverty and unemployment and poor access to quality...

This fact sheet outlines the impacts of canceling student debt on borrowers' lives and the state of the economy as a whole. Benefits include making homeownership more feasible, increasing borrower's freedom and mobility, reducing unemployment, boosting entrepreneurship, and more....

This fact sheet outlines the impacts of canceling student debt on racial and economic inequality. In particular, it explains how a substantial student debt cancellation plan could be a powerful tool to grow the Black middle class and address the racial wealth gap....

A proposed Canal Side community benefits agreement would facilitate community benefits to the residents of Buffalo, because of the Canal Side redevelopment project, by establishing binding commitments for living wage jobs, environmentally friendly building practices, local and minority...

Community Workforce Agreements (CWAs) are legally binding agreements that align the interests of communities and developments through benchmarks for local hiring, targeted job training programs to historic disparities, and standards for job quality. Best practices for effective CWAs...