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[https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/systemic-equality-addressing-americas-legacy-of-racism-and-systemic-discrimination by ACLU 4/9/24] | [https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/systemic-equality-addressing-americas-legacy-of-racism-and-systemic-discrimination by ACLU 4/9/24] | ||
Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systematically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment and more. | Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systematically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment and more. | ||
=====Six policies to reduce economic inequality===== | |||
[https://belonging.berkeley.edu/six-policies-reduce-economic-inequality by john a. powell 10/9/14 Othering & Belonging Institute] | |||
Following the Inequality Policy Brief, here are six ways to minimize the rising economic inequality prevalent in the United States. Haas Institute Director john a. powell discusses why these policies will work in slowing the growth in inequality. | |||
Almost three years to the date since Occupy Wall Street first raised the consciousness of Americans about the wide economic disparities between the richest one percent versus the 99 percent of U.S. earners, new Federal Reserve data confirms that wealth and income inequality in the U.S. is accelerating. | |||
