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Analysts at the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy have also backed the push for the Fed to look more closely at black unemployment.

“When you have more and more police officers in a community, research has shown it leads to more and more sort of conflict and interaction,” said Kumar Rao, director of justice transformation at the Center

In that document, policy advocate at the Center for Popular Democracy Marbre Stahly-Butts and Forward Justice co-director Daryl Atkinson argue for rerouting funds from policing to “long-term safety strategies

A 2015 report by the Center for Popular Democracy found the gap to be second worst among states in the nation, only behind Wisconsin. And 2015 U.S.

Policing and corrections accounted for about 30% of general funding in Atlanta and Orlando in 2017, and nearly 40% in Chicago, according to a report from the Center for Popular Democracy, an advocacy group

A few years ago, a collaboration between The Center for Popular Democracy, Law For Black Lives, and Black Youth Project 100 yielded a fascinating report into “reimagining safety and security in our communities

“The United States did not have to be the country that had the highest number of [coronavirus] cases and deaths in the world,” said Kumar Rao, co-author of the Freedom to Thrive report and director of

Police department budgets in many cities are often far greater than the budgets for education, health, social services, and other resources, according to an analysis by the Center for Popular Democracy

Even if former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted in the murder of George Floyd, that won’t fully deliver justice to black communities, Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president and co-executive

A 2017 report by the Center for Popular Democracy tracked and compared the rate of spending on policing and incarceration with that of public programming: "Over the last 30 years, the U.S. has dramatically