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Education – Closing the Opportunity Gap
- Support universal preschool
- Encourage the recruitment, training and hiring of African American teachers
- Support the statewide program for comprehensive dropout prevention, intervention and retrieval
- Support programs to encourage career connected learning
- Support legislation and workgroups to integrate African American history into the K-12 curriculum
Health
- Encourage programs that will address the disparity gap in health care for African Americans
- Support programs and medical services for the elderly and low income
- Address the disporportionate impacts of COVID19 on the African American community
Economic Development
- Support the repeal of Initiative 200
- Support WSDOT efforts to increase minority contracting and procurement opportunities for small businesses
- Support Microbusinesses
Criminal Justice
- Support legislation for intervention, job readiness and re-entry programs
- Support criminal sentencing reform for low level/risk offenders
Environmental Equity
- Improving quality of life for low income and communities of color through advocacy, community empowerment and representation.
- Work to create opportunities to benefit from the economic investment in the emerging green economy.
- Ensure that communities of color and low-income communities do not continually bear disproportionate share of the impact and effects of pollution, climate change and or environmental hazards because of a lack of influence, value or voice
- Creating a state which all communities have clean air, land, and water where neighborhoods do not determine your life expectancy
