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The Green New Deal is a vision for comprehensive national policy that addresses climate change at the scale and scope we need, creates living-wage jobs, and addresses racial and economic inequity by investing in communities.
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Adrien Salazar
Lew Daly
The challenges of existing at the intersection of anti-black racism and sexism have made generations of black women experts at ‘making a way out of no way.’ Using this solutions-oriented, highly-resourceful way of thinking, black women have created a political strategy that confronts these dynamics
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Charly Carter
Carol Lautier, Ph.D.
In disasters, vulnerable communities face an environmental apartheid, absorbing the disproportionate burden of the impact. In recovery, they face discrimination.
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Adrien Salazar
[D]emos, another liberal think tank, sees things differently. Recent research by the group finds support for putting more of the emphasis on race. [...]
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Alvin Chang
But progressives are adamant that the only way to win in November and beyond is to be about more than economics, and that the right message—the one that will appeal to progressive whites, as well as turning out more people of color to the polls—invokes both race and class equally. Two Netroots
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Elaine Godfrey
People care about race and class. Policymakers should be speaking to both.
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Ryan C. Brooks
Ruby Cramer
"I was first fired for my sexual orientation and gender expression at 19."
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Meghan Maury
Amy Traub
In Everyone’s America: State Policies for an Equal Say in Our Democracy and an Equal Chance in Our Economy, Demos lays out race-forward economic and pro-democracy policy agendas, centering the working class and people of color.
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Allie Boldt
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Community Voices Heard is leading the charge to hold the New York City Housing Authority accountable to its obligations to low-income residents.
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Carol Lautier, Ph.D.
Algernon Austin
Afua Atta-Mensah
The causes and effects of climate change are interwoven with racial, economic, and political inequity. Groups are building bridges across movements to address these intertwined, wicked problems.
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Adrien Salazar