by Jae June Lee and Cara Brumfield | Nov 6, 2019 | Fact Sheet
Census data are critical for advancing environmental justice and climate action. Researchers, advocates, and policymakers rely on accurate census data to identify the disparate impacts of the climate crisis, enforce an array of environmental protections, and ensure programs meet the needs (both short- and long-term) of diverse communities. This fact sheet is published jointly with WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation.
by GCPI | Sep 5, 2019 | Fact Sheet
Census data guide more than $800 billion in federal funding—including funding for reproductive health. This fact sheet, published jointly with Planned Parenthood, explores some of the reproductive health programs and services that rely on a fair and accurate 2020 Census count.
by Cara Brumfield, Casey Goldvale and Christopher Brown | Jun 12, 2019 | Fact Sheet
Accurate, detailed data on race and origin are necessary to enforce a broad array of civil rights protections, reveal disparate impacts of laws and policies, and ensure programs meet the needs of diverse communities. This fact sheet is a guide for responding to the 2020 Census race and origin questions.
by Kali Grant, Funke Aderonmu, Sophie Khan, Kaustubh Chahande, Casey Goldvale, Indi Dutta-Gupta, Aileen Carr and Doug Steiger | Jan 31, 2019 | Brief, Fact Sheet, Working Paper
This working paper outlines the ramifications of taking away Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and housing assistance from those who do not document meeting new work and community engagement requirements. The paper underscores how proposals that take away basic assistance from people who don’t meet work requirements are ill-informed, ineffective, inefficient, and inequitable, while alternative policies would produce far better outcomes.
by Patrick Oakford, Cara Brumfield, Casey Goldvale, Laura Tatum, Margaret diZerega and Fred Patrick | Jan 16, 2019 | Fact Sheet, Report
GCPI and the Vera Institute of Justice make the case for how lifting the current ban on awarding Pell Grants to incarcerated people would benefit workers, employers, and states. Specifically, it analyzes the potential employment and earnings impact of postsecondary education programs in prison; identifies the millions of job openings annually that require the skills a person in prison could acquire through postsecondary education and estimates the money states would save through lower recidivism rates these postsecondary education programs would yield.
by Christopher Brown, Anita Li, Laura Tatum, June Zeitlin and Arielle Atherley | Dec 18, 2018 | Fact Sheet
Raising the minimum wage and eliminating the tipped minimum wage would empower workers to report and address sexual harassment in the workforce and would be especially beneficial to women.
by Christopher Brown, Anita Li, Indi Dutta-Gupta, Laura Tatum and Emily Chatterjee | Dec 18, 2018 | Fact Sheet
Raising the minimum wage, improving wage theft protections, and eliminating the tipped minimum wage can help ensure workers’ receive their legally owed earnings and improve their economic security.
by Anita Li | Jun 1, 2018 | Fact Sheet
Eliminating the tipped minimum wage would help redress the racial and gender iniquities that are rooted in the racist origins of the tipped minimum wage that still exist today.
by Casey Goldvale, Sophie Khan and Corrine Yu | Apr 24, 2018 | Fact Sheet
American Indians and Alaska Natives have been historically undercounted for decades, in part due to the fact that roughly than one in four American Indians and Alaska Natives live in hard-to-count census tracts. Factors such as poverty, educational attainment, and housing insecurity can compound American Indians and Alaska Natives’ risk of being undercounted. Being undercounted potentially disadvantages American Indian and Alaska Native families, communities, and neighborhoods.
by Casey Goldvale, Corrine Yu and Sophie Khan | Apr 17, 2018 | Fact Sheet
In past censuses, the Middle Eastern and North African Americans (MENA) identity has only been listed as an example under the “white” racial category, if at all. Because of this, the full breadth of the MENA community is unknown and likely undercounted. Factors such as poverty, language barriers, and housing insecurity can compound the risk of MENA communities being undercounted. Being undercounted potentially disadvantages MENA families and communities.
