Healthy Chicago 2025 is Chicago’s five-year community health improvement plan that focuses on racial and health equity. Launched September 17, 2020, the mission “is to create a city where all people and all communities have power, are free from oppression; and are str...
City of Mobile v. Bolden: A municipal electoral system is constitutional if it does not have a discriminatory purpose, even if it has a discriminatory effect.
City Council, City Hall, Equity, homelessness, human services, Mayor Durkan, Uncategorized October 14, 2020 Mayor Announces Membership of New Equitable Communities Task Force, Faces Criticism from Social Justice Activists by Paul Kiefer Today, a little more than four months since Seattle Mayor ...
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Mosqueda did manage to add an amendment requiring a separate racial equity analysis for each new location where the city deploys the system; one frequent criticism of Shotspotter is that it leads to overpolicing in communities of color while doing nothing to reduce gun violence in those communit...
Racial equity, justice and innovation are priorities at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, thanks to the initiatives of Dean Valerie Kinloch. As chief investigator for the Shifting Power in Educational Research and Development Initiative, she is creating a model that centers Black and ...
At the 2020 census, the racial and ethnic composition of the state was 42.5% White (39.8% non-Hispanic White), 11.8% Black, 5.4% Asian, 0.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 13.6% some other race, 17.6% two or more races, and 40.2%...
There is a rich and extensive literature on health services in cities. A host of studies explore health services for the urban poor, racial and ethnic minorities and a variety of other “special” populations. A growing number of studies compare health..
Many scholars have discussed urban decline, and one of the emerging discourses has called for redefining the crisis as an opportunity to establish new urban governance models. This paper evaluates the outcomes of such innovative approaches to managing urban decline by identifying its major implementation...
As cities sign increasingly large off-site power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy, they should include equity criteria in the bid evaluation process, as Chicago did in one of the largest and most innovative municipal renewable energy solicitations so far. This massive project includes...