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ALT Text: The Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act Passes in MA House and Senate. Photo of the MA House vote to pass the bill in the MA State House.
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ALT “The launch of this fund is designed to unlock resources in support of ongoing efforts by cities and towns and community-led organizations alike to provide safe, secure housing and needed services to individual and families who undoubtedly deserve them.” Lee Pelton, President and CEO of TBF
ALT Massachusetts Migrant Families Relief Fund
ALT Asian Community Fund announces $275,000 in grants to 39 nonprofits serving AAPI communities. Three photos are shown: 1. two Asian women hug each other. 2. A Muslim woman wearing a hijab poses for a photo with a serious expression. 3. A woman pulls a wheeled bag through Chinatown
ALT "There are serious structural disparities and daily stresses – economic, social, physical and mental – that underserved and communities of color endure each and every day that puts life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness further out of their reach." Lee Pelton
ALT Residents of the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston -- an overwhelmingly wealthy neighborhood -- have a life expectancy of 92 years, while the average lifespan in Roxbury, a predominately Black, Afro-Latinx and Latinx neighborhood just two miles away, is 69 years. The 2023 Health of Boston Report
ALT Discriminatory housing and zoning practices, including redlining graded neighborhoods on potential mortgage lending risks, led to predatory lending practices and covenants that barred specific races other than Caucasian from owning, occupying, renting, selling or inheriting buildings.
ALT In 1944, the GI Bill lifted a generation into the middle class, giving free college and cheap home loans to millions of veterans. However, the United States was still very much segregated when the GI Bill became law, and it excluded Black veterans who served their country at war.
ALT "The debate about the educational benefits of diversity, in its preoccupation with the trees, misses the very important forest—namely, that ensuring diversity constitutes a moral imperative that goes far beyond the benefits to students on campus. Affirmative action’s compelling social function is...that it contributes positively to educating and training future generations of America’s ethnic and racial leaders." - Lee Pelton
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