Dear NCRC members and allies,
Last week, over 2,000 advocates gathered online at the Just Economy conference to learn from racial and social justice leaders, field experts and each other. The conference continues with Just Economy sessions every day this week!
Register now to join for today’s and all remaining sessions live. Registration also provides access through May 30 to recordings for most sessions from the entire conference.
Here’s what’s happening today:
11:30 am ET
- Home and Community Care: Our Path to Lasting Economic Recovery
- The State of Women Entrepreneurship
- The Stories We Could Tell: Journalism for a Just Economy
1:00 pm ET
- The New Thing: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Decentralized Finance
2:30 pm ET
- Bringing it All Together: Convening on Health and Community Development Investments
- Environmental Justice and the Racial Divide: Lack of Oversight of Toxic Sites Located in Communities of Color
4:00 pm ET
- Addressing Food Insecurity for those Suffering the Most from Income Inequality-SNAP
- Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest in Washington, DC
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Highlights from Day 5
"Your access to wealth determines your access to everything. The average White child enters the world with 10x the wealth of the average Black child." -Kelly Burton, Black Innovation Alliance
“Our job is to create space for those most harmed by the war on drugs, on Black and Brown people, communities of color.” -Rep. Anne Hughes, Connecticut General Assembly
"32% of people ages 53-62 have $0 saved for retirement. 57 million Americans don't have the savings to cover a $500 emergency."
-Antoinette Smith, Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People
“Systemic injustices need to be approached with an equally systemic effort.”-Dasheeda Dawson, City of Portland, Oregon
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Hope to “see” you soon,
Team NCRC
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