A Tribute: Keep Working Hard for Equity in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg We pay tribute to health care this week and next (see Blueprint Breakfast invite below) and most of all to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who helped break through so many barriers for women, and men, from workplace discrimination to education and health care access, and more. Justice Ginsburg's advocacy helped provi... Read More
Minnesota Equity Blueprint Breakfast Starts Growth & Justice yesterday hosted the first event in a series of 30-minute virtual "Recipes for Success - Minnesota Equity Blueprint" breakfasts, which reacquainted attendees with the two-years-in-the-making Minnesota Equity Blueprint, co-editors Dane Smith and Kate Searls shared their knowledge and insight on the Blueprint and its creation process, and gauged people’s policy prior... Read More
Philando Castile Legacy Upsides Several Minnesota newspapers picked up a Washington Post story recently that chronicled efforts by Minnesota racial justice advocates and other concerned citizens to improve policing, in the wake of the tragic shooting of Philando Castile two years ago. The article described a “Lights On” program, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, and sponsored by Microgrants, a no... Read More
An Update on Ending Poverty in MN Almost a decade ago the bi-partisan Commission to End Poverty in Minnesota by 2020 issued a report with dozens of sound policy recommendations. Growth & Justice since then has been allied with several organizations, including the Minnesota Asset Building Coalition and A Minnesota Without Poverty, advancing those original recommendations and many others that foster ... Read More
Cable Interview Focus on “One Minnesota” We are often invited to talk about our work on public access television and we’ve been particularly frequent guests on Alan Miller’s “Access to Democracy” show, serving cable viewers in Dakota County. In a Sept. 8 interview, President Dane Smith and Policy & Projects Director Matt Schmit talk at length about the so-called “rural-metro divi... Read More