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Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level City or Town, State, National
State(s) All States
Source Partnership for Working Families
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Health
Environmental racism and the subsequent chronic exposure to air pollution has been identified as one of the biggest contributing factors to higher rates of severe illness and death from COVID-19 within Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. Fossil fuel plants are among the top...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town, National
State(s) California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Texas
Source Center for Popular Democracy, Law for Black Lives, BYP100
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Safety
Excessive government spending on policing and incarceration, at the expense of critical social services, perpetuates systemic inequities and fails to make communities safer. This report advocates for an invest/divest framework to reallocate funds from punitive systems to community-based...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level County
State(s) All States
Source The Democracy Collaborative
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health
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...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level National
State(s) All States
Source Partnership for Working Families
Policy Areas Civil Rights
Through an examination of Amazon’s various platforms and services, this report reveals that for growing racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic movements, the breadth of Amazon’s business combined with its weak and inadequately enforced policies provides numerous channels through which...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level County
State(s) Arizona
Source Pima County Safety and Justice Challenge
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety
The limited use of electronic monitoring (EM) in Pima County, Arizona, is a result of state legislation restricting its application to nonviolent misdemeanor sentences, excluding pretrial cases. Expanding EM to pretrial use could significantly reduce jail populations and address racial...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2024
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source ChangeLab Solutions
Policy Areas Health
Racism is evident across many dimensions of the US food system, from low pay and poor working conditions for farm and food workers to unjust racial and ethnic disparities in rates of hunger, food insecurity, and diet-related diseases. This report outlines considerations to advance...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2020
Level City or Town, National, State
State(s) All States
Source The Policing Project at NYU Law
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Public Safety
Policing in its current form often fails to address social issues effectively, leading to stratified over-criminalization along socioeconomic lines. This report advocates for reimagining the policing function by establishing formal processes to evaluate community needs, reallocating...

Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Campaign Zero
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Public Safety
Recognizing that systemic change can only be achieved through comprehensive action, Campaign Zero provides a model use of force policy to help reduce police violence in America. Among these, the policies that govern how and when officers are allowed to use force against civilians...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) Washington
Source Partnership for Working Families
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Transportation & Mobility
As the Puget Sound region invests billions in a new light rail system, large scale gentrification will occur along the Southeast Seattle light rail corridor without immediate policy action. Transit-oriented development (TOD) planning must implement a racial justice framework in order...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2021
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source EARN
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
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...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2022
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Association of City Transportation Officials
Policy Areas Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility
Cities that have been systematically disenfranchised lack protected bike lanes, sidewalks, and safe crossing points. This report identifies the biased enforcement of bicycling laws and provides guidance on decriminalizing biking in cities. Best practices include working with local...

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