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To Protect Black Joy We Must Re-Imagine Safety

Anne Price shares a personal story to help illustrate why defunding the police and re-imagining public safety is the key to protecting Black joy.
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Centering Blackness: The Path to Economic Liberation for All

It is time to embark on a serious and sustained effort to center Blackness and the Black experience as a necessary strategy to ensure economic liberation for all Americans.
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Our Current Narratives and Institutions Fuel Black Disposability — Addressing Anti-blackness is the Way Out

We must persist in following action with investment and lasting systemic change.
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Re-Imagining a Bay Area Workforce System Grounded in Racial and Gender Equity

Revealing a lack of holistic and innovative initiatives working to address pervasive racial and gender biases among Bay Area workforce systems, the report highlights key findings and shares recommendations for systems reform.
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Finding Hope in Local Power

Jhumpa Bhattacharya and Anne Price co-authored a piece exploring the $2 trillion CARES package, and what can be done at the local and state levels to ensure racial and gender justice stays front and center in our response to the pandemic
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Coronavirus Pandemic Gives Rise to Another Contagion — Xenophobia

Aisa Villarosa, Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy, discusses the rise of xenophobia and racism experienced by Asian Americans in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Don’t Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap: Focus on Undoing Its Root Causes

In "Don’t Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap," Anne Price, in partnership with the Roosevelt Institute, examines how focusing on the root of racial wealth inequality can help us build a path toward a more sustainable economic and political system.
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New SNAP Rule Is Fueled by Anti-Blackness

Anne Price shares her thoughts on the Trump administration's recent punitive new rule in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) that is projected to push 700,000 of the most destitute Americans off the program.
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The Power of Narrative in Economic Policy

Anne Price and Jhumpa Bhattacharya discuss the significant role narrative plays in influencing economic policy and how three especially pervasive narratives hold back progress.
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Latinx Families in the Golden State: When Working Hard Isn’t Enough

A new report released today by the Insight Center reveals that despite a growing economy in California, 1.6 million Latinx households in California struggle to make ends meet while working full-time at one or more jobs.
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Spell It with a Capital "B"

While there's no standard rule on whether references to race should be lowercase or capitalized, most media outlets and publications that rely on the AP Stylebook refer to Black people in the lowercase.
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Exploring Guaranteed Income Through A Racial And Gender Justice Lens

This new publication, co-released with the Roosevelt Institute, explores the role of guaranteed income in combating racial wealth inequalities.
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Clipped Wings: Closing the Wealth Gap for Millennial Women

A new co-produced report reveals the current economic reality for millennial women and the primary drivers contributing to their wealth inequities.
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What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

New report addresses ten commonly held myths about the racial wealth gap in the United States.
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Publications

08/03/2020

To Protect Black Joy We Must Re-Imagine Safety

By Anne Price | Medium Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has consistently been…

06/18/2020

Centering Blackness: The Path to Economic Liberation for All

Before the COVID-19 crisis, there was growing recognition that structural…

06/15/2020

If Black Lives Matter, the ‘Welfare Queen’ Myth Must Go

By Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Aisha Nyandoro, and Anne Price | The Nation…

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Events

Systems Failure: Policing Can’t Be Reformed | July 13

Systems Failure: Policing Can’t Be Reformed: Why Defunding and Abolishing…

Structural Racism and Barriers for Youth in the COVID-19 Pandemic | June 10

Structural Racism and Barriers for Youth in the COVID-19 Pandemic…

Resilient: Small Businesses Strengthening Local Economies | June 3

Amid COVID-19, Association for Enterprise Opportunity’s 2020 conference theme, “Resilient:…

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