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NOVEMBER 2022
     

FOCUS: Inside Black DC will provide you with an insider’s look into federal policy. This newsletter shares relevant data, news, and information related to economic policy. We center Black communities in policy debates about workforce policy, small business, economic development, tax policy, and household economic security.

The White House holds African American Impact Briefing

The White House held an African American Economic Impact Briefing with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Domestic Policy Advisor Ambassador Susan Rice, Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Co-Executive Director of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative Prentiss Haney.  At the briefing, White House officials shared details on how the administration has advanced equity for Black Americans. 

Advancing Equitable Workforce Development for Infrastructure Jobs

The White House released a new guide, Advancing Equitable Workforce Development for Infrastructure Jobs. This guide illustrates how programs managed by the Departments of Transportation, Energy, Commerce, Labor, Treasury, Education, the Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency,  can be used for workforce development. This resource intends to help direct the distribution of infrastructure dollars in a manner that would improve equitable job creation opportunities in communities of color.

Opening the Federal Regulatory Process to More Voices: Government Engagement Session

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House Office of Management and Budget invites the public to attend an engagement session on how to improve public participation in the federal regulatory process, including participation from underserved communities.

According to the White House, “[t]his session will inform the development of the United States’ Open Government National Action Plan — a set of public commitments the federal government is drafting with input from civil society to support a more equitable, transparent, and accountable government. The plan will include commitments related to public engagement in the work of government.” 

This session will occur virtually Nov. 17, 12 p.m ET. Register here

Reimagining Job Quality Measurement

The Families and Workers Fund's Job Quality Measurement Initiative released a report, Reimagining Job Quality Measurement. This report emphasizes why job quality and workforce equity are such critical priorities, and how better job quality measurement could help us advance these priorities.

Joint Center Director of Workforce Policy Dr. Alex Camadelle,  states, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure, which is why I am thrilled to work with the Job Quality Measurement Initiative to create clear accountability metrics that ensure career preparation and job creation efforts lead to racially and economically just outcomes. When we adequately measure job quality in a manner that accounts for the historical and current harms that Black workers face, we will be better equipped to replace an unfair labor market with one that guarantees all Black workers will have high-quality employment on their path to economic prosperity.”

You're Invited:
Voice at the Table with Rep. Terri A. Sewell

We invite you to join Joint Center President Spencer Overton at 2 p.m. ET, Tuesday, Nov. 15 in a robust, one-hour conversation with Rep. Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), member of the House Ways and Means Committee and co-chair of the Voting Rights Task Force for the Congressional Black Caucus. The conversation will highlight the implications of tax policies for Black communities; equitable deployment of federal infrastructure resources in the Black Rural South (including broadband); and the future of voting rights in the aftermath of the 2022 midterms and the Supreme Court arguments in the Alabama redistricting case.  

Register for the Zoom conversation here.

                               
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