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We have so much to learn from others’ good work without reinventing the wheel. Thanks to Covid, since the pandemic, there has been an encouraging focus on equitable economic recovery.
However, this study suggests we keep a few things in mind.
1) future of many children is determined by their skin colour and postal code, which means place still matters.
2) we all suffer when children suffer due to racial disparity, which is the result of conscious policy choices;
3) to blunt the worst effects of poverty, economic recovery must focus on putting families on the path to economic mobility.

Overcoming racism to advance economic opportunity

Camille M. Busette, Ph.D., testified before the House Ways and Means Committee discussing the need for a more equitable U.S. policy framework on April 6, 2022.

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