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Don’t Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap: Focus on Undoing Its Root Causes

Organization: 
Insight Center for Community Development and Roosevelt Institute
Author: 
Anne Price

Racial Wealth Gap Report CoverInequality is a defining American issue, and perhaps no measure more accurately exemplifies the failures and injustices of historic and current-day economic decisions than the “racial wealth gap.” In the current political moment—when bold ideas to rebalance economic and political power, especially by race, are central to public debate—we have the opportunity to reevaluate how we thi

Year: 
2020
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Racialized Groups

Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems: Building the Social Economy on PEI

Organization: 
Social Economy Working Group
Author: 
Barb Broome, David Daughton, David Webster, Kevin Porter, Marcia Carroll, Sherri Barrett, Tammy Rix, Sara Roach-Lewis

Preview of the paperThe Government of PEI, through projects embedded and championed in the Executive Council Office, has been exploring and developing a betier understanding of Social Enterprise over the past several years.

Year: 
2019
Format: 
Document
Categories: 
Poverty Reduction
Regional Development
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Source: 
Weblink

Climate Solutions that Work: Bringing Community Benefits and Climate Action Together

Organization: 
Toronto Environmental Alliance

Climate solutions that workGovernments around the world are grappling with the urgency to address climate change. Every level of government has a role to play in ensuring we reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the impacts of climate change.

Year: 
2018
Format: 
Document
Categories: 
Job Training
Entrepreneurship & Business Development
Stories and Experiences
Sustainable Development
Source: 
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Voice of Experience: Engaging people with lived experience of poverty in consultations

Organization: 
Metcalf Foundation
Author: 
John Stapleton and Bee Lee Soh

On August 21, 2018, the Government of Canada released “Opportunity for All – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy.” In his letter of transmission to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development, the Hon.

Year: 
2019
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Government
Partnership Building
Policy Development & Advocacy
Poverty Reduction
Stories and Experiences

Connecting Local People to the Prosperity of Place: Workforce Development Meets Industrial Revitalization

Organization: 
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Author: 
Patricia Voltolini and David Greenberg

Connecting Local People to the Prosperity of Place cover

Year: 
2019
Format: 
Research report
Case study
Categories: 
Job Training
Local economy
Poverty Reduction
Social Justice
Source: 
Weblink

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