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Multicultural Communities for Mobility – Program and Policy Coordinator (Los Angeles, P/T)
Multicultural Communities for Mobility (MCM) advocates for safe, equitable streets for & with people who walk, bike, and use public transit in Los Angeles. The Program and Policy Coordinator will be responsible for developing and implementing programming and managing volunteer roles for events and activities, and serving as an ambassador for MCM at local meetings,…
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Can the Bay Area Tech Economy Embrace Equity Before It’s Too Late?
Featured photo credit: SEIU-USWW By Chris Schildt, PolicyLink This post originally appeared at New Economy Week 2015: From Austerity to Prosperity. Uber recently purchased one of the largest office spaces in downtown Oakland, California, with plans to move3,000 of its workers there by 2017. For a city facing a housing crisis and rapid displacement of…
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Bringing Neighborhoods Wealth — Not Gentrification
By Marjorie Kelly and Sarah McKinley This article was originally featured at Yes! Magazine and adapted from Cities Building Community Wealth, a project of The Democracy Collaborative, for New Economy Week. In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by. An August 2015 study by The Century Foundation reported that—after…
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