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ENEWS: On Environmental Resilience
GET OUT THE VOTE! Please take a look at this powerful video and share it widely! Thank you, Mark Ritchie! The Climate Clock is counting down… The giant digital clock installed at the Metronome in New York was recently converted into an artistic statement that counts down the time until an “an irreversible climate emergency alters human existence as we know it,” says a recent article from The Washington Post... Read More
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ENEWS: Community Entrepreneurship Strategies, Poverty, and Income Inequalities
Minority Owned Rural Firms & the Pandemic The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, the Housing Assistance Council, the Rural Community Assistance Partnership and Rural LISC have come together to create virtual Rural Opportunity and Development Sessions, or ROAD Sessions. The first session, "Open for Business: Working with Minority-Owned Rural Firms through the Pandemic" this week featured entrepreneurs from Native, Latinx and Black r... Read More
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ENEWS: Child Care: Another Crisis Emerging out of the Pandemic
A hurdle for economic revival The New York Times published a feature on the child care crisis emerging out of the pandemic-induced economic collapse, using New York City as an example of how reopening plans and conflicts with child care in the fall could present a huge barrier to rebuilding the economy. The article broaches the concern that the country doesn’t have a “serious solution” for a child care crisis. &l... Read More
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ENEWS: Reflections on Patriotism and More
“Toward a better patriotism” Dane Smith, a Growth & Justice senior fellow and co-editor of the Minnesota Equity Blueprint, wrote an op-ed for the Star Tribune titled “Toward a better patriotism.” He discusses the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the statue removal of figures like Christopher Columbus, and the country-wide efforts to confront systemic racism-- all within the context of recent annive... Read More
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Southwest LRT will help ease the mismatch between urban job seekers and metro jobs
MINNPOST Look closely at the orange and green splotches on new mapping of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, and you’ll begin to understand why building the Southwest Light Rail Transit line (SWLRT) has become so important in special session negotiations, for both Minnesota business leaders and advocates for economic and racial justice. Orange blobs on these maps represent the largest concentrations of metro job vacancies, while the gre... Read More
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