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NYC's Racial Equity Plan Delayed
Episode 1580

NYC's Racial Equity Plan Delayed

The independent Commission on Racial Equity filed a lawsuit against the City over the delays in releasing the racial equity plan.

The Brian Lehrer Show

August 22, 202545m 46s

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Show Notes

The independent Commission on Racial Equity filed a lawsuit against the City over the delays in releasing the racial equity plan, as required by the City Charter. Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and co-chair of National True Cost of Living Coalition, and Darrick Hamilton professor of economics and urban policy and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, who served on the commission that helped establish the process, discuss the delay and the state of racial equity in NYC today.

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