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Director, Econ Mobility Policy
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. Sociologist. Mobility, wealth/financial well-being, & racial equity. Fmr
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Washington, DCJoined June 2009
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K Steven Brown
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Also, this really cool report I co-authored just got published, conceptualizing how to score legislation for equity (as critical factor in addition to scoring for budget impact) 2/3
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Urban Institute
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New report with @policylink: How a scoring system on federal legislation can advance policies that improve equity. urbn.is/3QdmuvF
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
This is really great and I’m excited for how these resources will open new doors for children in DC as they come of age.
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CM McDuffie's Office
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Yesterday, the D.C. Council unanimously passed legislation creating “baby bonds” for children born into low-income families. This effort, lead by Councilmember McDuffie, is a major step toward closing the racial wealth gap.
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
I wrote this last year for Juneteenth and it still very much applies. Juneteenth is a regular and necessary reminder of where we've come from and how much we still have left to go.
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.@KregSteven reflects on #Juneteenth & the stalwart march to victory: urbn.is/3wFhGF9
It’s quite challenging at times to embrace a place that has so often been so hostile. But for my ancestors & for me, America is the only home I’ve known. For me & for so many others, it is our native land. So it’s important to celebrate that moment when those fundamental rights long denied after that first Fourth of July became realized in law & policy—that moment when we, as a country, came that much closer to living up to the promises enshrined in our founding documents.
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Graham MacDonald
@GrahamIMac
Biden's Equitable Data Working Group is a great initiative.
@KregSteven
,
@ClaireMKBowen
and I recommend they consider 5 key issues: 1. Quality, fairness + accuracy in Census 2. Better data sharing 3. Community engagement 4. Innovative methods 5. Privacy
urban.org
How the Federal Government Can Use Data to Make the Most of the Executive Order on Racial Equity
Establishing the Equitable Data Working Group is an important step to improving federal data infrastructure. What comes next?
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
Incredibly important work - with incredibly frustrating findings - on how top retailers are paying their frontline workers during the pandemic...spoiler alert, not well (with a few exceptions)
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Molly Kinder
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🚨 🚨 Excited to share my favorite publication yet: new @brookingsmetro report w/ @StatelerLaura @JuliaTDu "Windfall profits & deadly risks: How the biggest retail companies are compensating #EssentialWorkers during the #COVID19 pandemic" brookings.edu/essay/windfall A 🧵 1/
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Urban Institute
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@thesamanthab
: "As local policymakers & community organizations work together to provide relief to families, our new tool is an additional asset in ensuring the most vulnerable renters receive the assistance they need." (via
@jaredbrey
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Housing in Brief: How to Get the Most from Rental Assistance Programs
Also: redlined neighborhoods suffer from higher temperatures, and San Francisco expands its right to counsel program. 
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Urban Institute
@urbaninstitute
New analysis: If 2 policies from the HEALS Act are enacted, 7.7M people would be kept out of poverty for the rest of the year. In comparison, an earlier analysis finds 12.2M people would be kept out of poverty if 3 policies in the HEROES Act are enacted.
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2020 Poverty Projections: Comparing the Effects of Provisions in the HEALS and HEROES Acts
The Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act under consideration by the US Senate would support families who are struggling during the pandemic-induced recession, but...
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
Wholeheartedly agree with
@TiffNFord
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@MollyKinder
“[Several] companies have publicly committed to racial justice, but if they want to put their words into practice, they should extend pay increases while the COVID-19 threat continues—and, ultimately, make them permanent.”
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The Brookings Institution
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America’s policymakers and employers must do far more to protect Black essential workers and the millions more soon returning to job sites. @TiffNFord and @MollyKinder outline how: brook.gs/2Z6SMPq
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
It really is a strange time to be parenting young black children. ME: *trying to explain why so many people are upset and a history of mistreatment for people who look like daddy* MY 3 YO vehicle-obsessed Son: Which one is faster: stock cars or Formula 1 cars?
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
I’ve watched a good number of animated movies in the past couple of months, and I really don’t get why really famous actors do really terrible animated movies. Good money for a week’s work, maybe? But Sam Jackson & Paul Giamatti in a movie about race car snails? Why?!
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
2/4 I study racial inequality, so I know the rhythms and the beats, but this was like being trapped in a room with the music turned all the way to 100...with a lot of people singing at the top of their lungs when they don't know all the words
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K Steven Brown
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1/4 The past couple of weeks may very well have been the most emotionally challenging of my career. It was essentially impossible to escape racial trauma. You know it's been a rough one when a memorial service is a high point.
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
A solid introduction to some key moments in racist and discrimation policy from the past century.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam
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Other classroom resources on structural racism - will be updated daily.jstor.org/institutionali
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
Looting and rioting should not be encouraged or celebrated, but property can be rebuilt. You can’t bring back lives taken recklessly and too soon.
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Jonathan Capehart
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"If white people had as much emotional upset and reaction to racial injustice, to the taking of black lives, as we do to the taking of white property, you would not see looting or rioting. These are desperate measures. LISTEN to my convo w Robin DiAngelo 👇🏾wapo.st/3cq9qhx
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
This is an incredible thread. So much good and terrifying history. I was particularly struck by the pair of quotes from a police officer a century ago: 1) “Yes, we beat n*****s”” next to 2) “I don’t try to promote race hatred...a lot of my friends are n*****s”.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
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The problem isn't that this nation suddenly turned into "Chicago 1968" this week. The problem is that "Chicago 1968" had been building for a century and only continued to build in the half-century since. The "police riot" is a national problem. But it long has been.
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K Steven Brown
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9/9 people’s lives depend on better laws and better policy. This is not a euphemism. Their lives *literally* depend on it. My life. The protestors’ lives. The lives of people yet to catch COVID. My son’s life. Fight hard for change whatever way you know best. Fight for a life.
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K Steven Brown
@KregSteven
8/n if this is not the country you want or it’s not the country you thought, 1) Educate yourself and listen to voices crying for change. 2) Name racism. Look at its ugly heart still at work. 3) Do something to pass a law or change a policy that *actively* benefits Black people
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