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ENEWS: Climate Change & COVID-19
Climate Change, COVID-19 and Disparities To keep climate change in the spotlight, we decided to do two newsletters in a row on environmental resilience— this time, we’re focusing on the intersection between climate change and the pandemic. At a time when less people are traveling and commuting, many are wondering whether it will have any impact, if at all, on climate change. In this podcast episode from MPR News titled “... Read More
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ENEWS: A Week on Health Care & a Tribute to RBG
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
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ENEWS: Post-Labor Day: Business, Labor & Pandemic’s Impact
Post-Labor Day: Business, Labor & Pandemic’s Impact Looming in the shadow of Labor Day is the continual loss of businesses in the midst of the pandemic, and conflicts with fair labor that have come fully into focus. In the Twin Cities alone, many local businesses have suffered, and several— many of which were staples of their neighborhoods & communities— have closed their doors indefinitely. Surly Brewi... Read More
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ENEWS: Equitable Growth & Racial Justice, Defending USPS, and Immigrants & Labor Day
Next Blueprint Breakfast is August 19th Growth & Justice’s next virtual Minnesota Equity Blueprint Breakfast in the Recipes for Success series will be next Wednesday, August 19! From 8 to 8:30 a.m., we will hear from Dr. Bruce Corrie and Brett Buckner of OneMN.org on racial justice and strategies for equitable and inclusive economic growth, and have a Q&A session with our two guests (OneMN.org is Growth & Justice’s partn... Read More
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ENEWS: On Equity: Income, Communities, Blueprint & 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
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