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ENEWS: Race, Wealth, and Health Care
What we’re reading this week: Heather C. McGhee’s essay in NYT This week, check out “The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth,” an essay in the New York Times by Heather C. McGhee that is adapted from her book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. The essay discusses undoing the “idea of a fixed quantity of prosperity” and ho... Read More
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ENEWS: Taxes, Equitable Recovery, and Tracking MN Equity Blueprint
Taxes: G&J co-founder and Board Member Lee Lynch’s Star Tribune Op-Ed On Monday, the Star Tribune published Growth & Justice board member Lee Lynch’s op-ed titled “Please raise my taxes; I can afford it.” Lee details his successes as an entrepreneur and underlines his support for President Biden and Governor’s Walz’s proposals of increasing taxes on the wealthy. Tax increases must be coupled with effo... Read More
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2021 Legislative Agenda Draft
2021 Draft Priorities - Using an overarching diversity, equity and inclusion lens for policy consideration HUMAN CAPITAL Top Priorities: o Improve access to affordable health care, including a MinnesotaCare buy-in and pursuing other pathways to universal coverage. o Improve the economic security of households through successful safety net programs and ensure that pay and benefits for workers provide a route out of poverty. o Increase inves... Read More
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ENEWS: Legislative Agenda-Making & Economic Disparities
Dec. 16 Blueprint Blastoff Thank you to everyone who came to either or both of our Blueprint Blastoffs! We appreciate the time and input you gave us, and we are in the process of consolidating your notes and top priorities to be incorporated into a draft of our 2021 legislative agenda. Once that’s pulled together, we’ll send it out to all of you, so keep an eye out for that coming into your inbox sometime around the beginning ... Read More
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ENEWS: Blueprint Priorities, Health Care for All & Equitable Recovery
Last call for Blastoff registration & prioritizing Blueprint policies! Our second and final Minnesota Equity Blueprint Blastoff is happening next Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 12-1 p.m., so make sure to register if you’d like to provide your input for our 2021-22 legislative agenda! This meeting, which will be over Zoom, will build off the priorities ranked during the first Blastoff and create a masterlist of Blueprint ... Read More
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