Child care is essential for student parents to succeed. Research shows that affordable, accessible child care plays an important role in helping student parents stay in school. But it’s becoming harder and harder for them to afford both child care and tuition. This report from Communities for Our Colleges documents the challenges to obtaining childContinue reading “Report: Working Connections – The Need to Expand Child Care Access to Undocumented Students in Washington State”
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Still Struggling to Make Ends Meet 2022: A report on living wages in Washington State
Over the last two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has triggered many changes in American life, but workers in Washington State and across the country continue to face difficulties making ends meet. Hazard pay premiums for essential workers have temporarily boosted worker pay, but inflation through February 2022 was at its highest rate since 1982, erasingContinue reading “Still Struggling to Make Ends Meet 2022: A report on living wages in Washington State”
Press Release: Groups Call for Philanthropy to Support Public Transit & Mobility
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 4, 2022 Contact: Doug Gordon | doug@upshiftstrategies.com More Than 35 Civil Rights, Environmental, Transportation And Philanthropic Leaders Call On Climate Funders To Re-Think Their Giving And Invest More In Clean Transportation To Curb Greenhouse Gasses Today, more than 35 leading climate justice, environmental, civil rights and philanthropic leaders called onContinue reading “Press Release: Groups Call for Philanthropy to Support Public Transit & Mobility”
To Tackle Racial Justice, Organizing Must Change
Originally published in The Forge, this opinion piece is coauthored by LeeAnn Hall, Libero Della Piana, and Prof. Daniel Martinez HoSang. In his 1998 article “The Last Stop Sign,” the Oakland-based organizer Gary Delgado issued a friendly provocation: organizers must directly take on race and racism. The dominant traditions of community organizing at the time,Continue reading “To Tackle Racial Justice, Organizing Must Change”
‘The crossroads between climate and equity’: Advocates push for transit justice
Grassroots organizers look to seize the momentum of the infrastructure legislation and heightened awareness of equity issues to improve public transportation access. Q&A by Dan Zukowski at SmartCitiesDive With the Black Lives Matter movement heightening awareness of racial and social inequities, and with the recent challenges facing essential workers who rely on public transit, theContinue reading “‘The crossroads between climate and equity’: Advocates push for transit justice”
400 Years of Racism & Resistance in Virginia
Alliance for a Just Society creates workshops and educational sessions to develop the capacity of movement leaders and staff. Our 400 Years of Racism & Resistance in Virginia workshop uses history to help participants understand the nature of systemic racism and the opportunities to challenge it today. On October 21, Libero Della Piana, AJS SeniorContinue reading “400 Years of Racism & Resistance in Virginia”
Public Transit, Built Back Better
The Build Back Better plan’s historic investment in public transit would have a tremendous positive impact. If you follow the news about President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, you might have heard a lot about its 10-year price tag. But you probably haven’t heard much about what it would actually do. The bill will investContinue reading “Public Transit, Built Back Better”
This Isn’t a Sprint, It’s a Long-Distance Race
Executive Director of the Alliance for a Just Society, LeeAnn Hall was recently a guest on The Movement Podcast. She reminds us that it is people’s lived experiences that help define what barriers to access exist and highlights the importance of community leadership to illuminate the solutions. The Movement · 127 This Isn't a Sprint,Continue reading “This Isn’t a Sprint, It’s a Long-Distance Race”
Public Reconstruction
Public Reconstruction is a project of the Alliance for a Just Society and Professor Daniel HoSang of Yale University. What is Public Reconstruction? First: We must reconstruct our country by turning the things we need to thrive into public goods, with an eye toward racial justice. This was true before COVID. It is even moreContinue reading “Public Reconstruction”
Job Gap Report Series
Over the course of twenty, the Alliance for a Just Society published numerous reports as part of the Job Gap Economic Prosperity series. The reports document the chasm between the needs of working families and the availability of living wage. Beginning in the Pacific Northwest states, the Job Gap series eventually covered states around theContinue reading “Job Gap Report Series”