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In The Nation yesterday, Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel explores the Occupy Wall Street’s impact on how the nation — from ordinary citizens to policy leaders to the mainstream media — talks about America’s rapidly growing economic divide. PolicyLink Associate Director, and co-author of “America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model,” is quoted in the piece explaining [...]

An op-ed in the Star-Tribune by Avi Viswanathan insists that new buildings and infrastructure development in Minneapolis must include an emphasis on equity. Why? “As stated in the well-respected national research organization Policylink’s recently published paper, ‘public and private-sector leaders need to recognize that preparing the change in population for the needs of the modern [...]

This post is part of a series presenting equity leaders’ reactions to “America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model” — a new paper that challenges the nation to invest in our collective future. This post is written by Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental [...]

As we get ready for 2012, and continue our work advancing economic and social equity, we have exciting news from Congress! Here’s what we can look forward to in next year’s budget (in alphabetical order): Choice Neighborhoods will receive $120 million to create communities of opportunity with stable affordable housing, up from $100 million last year. [...]

Promise Neighborhoods, the hot new program based in years of experience and successful efforts, is on the chopping block in the FY 2012 budget negotiations. Inspired by the model of the Harlem Children’s Zone, Promise Neighborhoods wrap children in high-quality, coordinated health, social, community, and educational support from cradle to college to career. This successful [...]

This fall, the Federal Transit Administration (a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation)  issued proposed policy guidance will set the stage for how transit agencies and other transit service providers will meet their important civil rights and environmental justice obligations. The significance of this critical step for historically disinvested communities cannot be overlooked. In the past several years, equity advocates [...]

This post is part of a series presenting equity leaders’ reactions to “America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model” — a new paper that challenges the nation to invest in our collective future. This post is written by Mitchell Silver, President of the American Planning Association. Click here to read other reflections. PolicyLink continues to challenge us [...]

This post is part of a series presenting equity leaders’ reactions to “America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model” — a new paper that challenges the nation to invest in our collective future. This post is written by Lawrence J. Hanley, International President of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), the largest labor organization representing transit workers [...]

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This post is part of a series presenting equity leaders’ reactions to “America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model” — a new paper that challenges the nation to invest in our collective future. This post is written by Larry Cohen, Executive Director, and Maggie Barnes, New Sector Resident, of the Prevention Institute. Click here to read other [...]