Contracting for Equity: Best Local Government Practices that Advance Racial Equity in Government Contracting and Procurement
This report investigates best local government practices in inclusive contracting to increase access by businesses owned by people of color and women to gove...
May 27, 2021
Unstacking the Deck: Toward Financial Resilience for African-American Entrepreneurs in the South
This field scan explores the creation of solutions to help financially vulnerable African American entrepreneurs to achieve positive financial health as busi...
May 5, 2020
Lessons from SEED – a National Demonstration of Child Development Accounts
Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship, and a Down payment (SEED) provides summary report based on Child Development Accounts to better understand key lesson...
May 4, 2020
Forced to Walk a Dangerous Line – Consequences of Debt in Black Communities
For millions of Americans, debt controls access to wealth-building opportunities. This report explores the influence of debt on the racial wealth divide espe...
May 4, 2020
The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
This report is the first of a series of publications on the racial wealth gap and how to better close it. Many areas of interest include repairing Black empl...
May 4, 2020
Big Impact of Small Businesses on Urban Job Creation: Evidence from Five Cities
This report explores data about jobs by businesses with less than 250 employees in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The work also e...
April 23, 2020
Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap
This paper explores popular explanations for the racial wealth gap and their data driven legitimacy in wealth talk in the US. Researching historic injustices...
April 23, 2020
Achieving Credit Strength: A Toolkit for Supporting Returning Citizen Entrepreneurs
This toolkit provides steps in improving credit strength to better help clients rebuild their life after returning from incarceration into the workforce. Man...
April 23, 2020
Policy Agenda for Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
This publication and data graphic explore the necessarily methods to closing the racial wealth gap. The guide provides short, intermediate and long term goal...
April 23, 2020
Beyond Broke: Why Closing the Racial Wealth Gap is a Priority for National Economic Security
This report explores the gap within the racial wealth gap through the exploration of liquid wealth. It analyzes how to better diversity wealth, especially in...
April 23, 2020
Criminal Justice Debt – A Toolkit for Action
This toolkit provides an overview of criminal justice debt, who it impacts the most and constitutional violations. The report recommends reforms such as cond...
April 23, 2020
Charging Inmates Perpetuates Mass Incarceration
This report explores how current practice of charging inmates perpetuates mass incarceration, provides the history of inmate fees and recommends policy repla...
April 23, 2020
Racial Wealth Gap: Narrowing the Racial Wealth Gap through Business Ownership
This brief explores the racial wealth gap as it relates to Black and Latino business owners. It also investigates Native American business ownership and chal...
April 23, 2020
My Brother’s Keeper Task Foce: One Year Progress Report to the President
The "My Brother's Keeper" (MBK) initiative presented by President Barack Obama was committed to closing opportunity gaps faced by young people, particularly ...
April 22, 2020
Economics of Investing in Opportunity Youth
This publication investigates the patterns, perspectives and policies associated with the economic impact of Opportunity Youth in the U.S. The report provide...
April 22, 2020
Race, Wealth and Incarceration
Examining data from a 1979 cohort, this study analysis examines the race and wealth status before and after incarceration. Data indicate that Blacks at every...
April 22, 2020
Forging Equitable Communities
This article looks at the conditions and underlying causes of racism and racial equity and proposes that solutions to overcome racism cannot be a one size fi...
April 22, 2020
Social Benefits of Homeownership and Stable Housing
As research has consistently shown the importance of housing on the economy and long-term financial stability, this report explores that existing research an...
April 22, 2020
Culture, Collaboration and Capital
This guide provides a toolkit for promoting equal treatment and emphasizes the benefit of diversifying contractors and opening the procurement process. The r...
April 22, 2020
Color of Wealth in Los Angeles
This report explores the findings of the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) survey reveals wealth disparities among racial groups in L...
April 21, 2020