equity

JANUARY 12, 2021 - The National Urban League, working with other civil rights organizations and public policy experts, is unveiling the Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity and Inclusion, a detailed and comprehensive agenda to deploy networks everywhere, connect everyone and use the networks to improve how we deliver essential services for workforce development, healthcare and education. 

We’re accustomed to thinking of our physical, digital, and social infrastructure independently, but in fact they are inherently interconnected. 

Local government purchasing, including how a jurisdiction decides what to buy, and how they decide who to buy from, makes a huge difference in how innovative and equitable that government will be.

NOVEMBER 19, 2020 - Local governments are big buyers. But for too long, how and with whom our local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities in our country.

For too long, how and with whom our local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities in our country.