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It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and publicpolicy, promising to streamline and elevate. This isnt just a denial of financial services; its a denial of possibility, locking communities into cycles of poverty and keeping doors closed to upward mobility.
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Publicpolicy, however, can make a tremendous difference. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. What Happened to the Child Tax Credit After 2021?
The statement of intent from the government in part reads : “At this historic juncture, we must act to ensure stability and peace, tackling the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality, entrench our constitutional democracy and the rule of law, and to build a South Africa for all its people.” With an estimated 55.5
BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Furthermore, many inner-city students face a range of social and economic challenges outside of school, such as poverty, crime, and family instability, which can make it difficult for them to succeed in school.
They are the predictable consequences of racist and sexist publicpolicies and banking practices that intentionally exclude Black Americans—and Black women specifically—from homeownership as a pathway to economic and emotional stability. These results are no accident.
The new benefit reached some 60 million children (including 26 million children previously ineligible for the full benefit) and was widely credited with cutting child poverty in the United States by nearly half—overnight. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.
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percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for publicpolicy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.” For instance, the Anchorage Community Land Trust , which began in 2003 and is the oldest example reviewed in the report, acquired land in a BIPOC neighborhood that had a 25.1
Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity. Starting in 2010, the CEO authorized and worked closely with the organization’s COO to prioritize racial equity, both internally and in its publicpolicy work.
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22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in publicpolicy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.
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Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Racist publicpolicy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” including cancelling the full remaining balance for roughly 20 million borrowers.”.
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