Policy Spreadsheet

Food & Water

Reports

• Environmental Justice & Disadvantaged Communities Drinking Water Resource Guide
• Right to Food
• Constitutional and Legal Protection of the Right to Food around the World

Sample Policies and Legislation

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
• Open and Transparent Water Data Act: AB1755
• Safe Drinking Water Act: Senate Bill No. 200
• Safe Water Code: Assembly Bill No. 685
• Water Resources Development Act of 2020: H.R.7575 

Web Sources

• SNAP: State by State Data, Fact Sheets, and Resources
• Apply for Food Stamps in 10 Minutes

Childcare

Reports

• Child care is important for advancing gender and racial equity
• Grants and Contracts A Strategy for Building the Supply of Subsidized Infant and Toddler Child Care
• Child Care for All: A Blueprint for States

Sample Legislation

• Child Care is Essential Act, a $50 billion Child Care Stabilization Fund

Education

Reports 

• Early Education Gaps by Social Class and Race Start U.S. Children Out on Unequal Footing
• How Child Care Disruptions Hurt Parents of Color Most

Sample Policies and Legislation

• H.R.4674 – College Affordability Act
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• Accreditation Reform Act of 2020
• Financial Aid Access to College Students In Prison, H.B. 4236
• Families Over Fees Act, SB 144

Web Sources 

• Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Equitable College Campus
• Dispute Unpaid Private Loans
• Making the Case for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Supportive Teaching Standards
• Defense to Repayment for Federal Student Loans

Debt 

Reports 

• For-Profit College Exploitation
• Student Debt: An Overlooked Barrier to Increasing Teacher Diversity
• Nonwhite School Districts Get $23 Billion Less than White Districts Despite Serving the same Number of Students
• Is School Funding Fair?
• Looming Student Loan Default Crisis

Sample Legislation

•  Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act of 2017 H.R.2498

Housing

Reports

• Municipal Green Building Resolution 38249
• Building Environmental Sustainable Communities
• Culturally and Environmentally Responsive Housing 
• Home Loan Improvement Data
• Credit Discrimination
• Solidarity for Climate Action

Sample Legislation

• Emergency Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act
• Housing is a Human Right Act of 2020, H.R.6308 
• Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, S.3066
• The Fair Housing Act
• Undoing Racist Zoning or Lending Laws in Key States

Web Sources

• Explicit Housing Segregation Policies
• Embedding Racial Equity in Housing

Employment

Reports

• A Framework for States on Workforce Development for People with Disabilities
• Debt Free Justice California
• Why Studying and Working Hard Isn’t Enough for Black Americans
• The Racial Wealth Gap: What California Can Do About a Long-Standing Obstacle to Shared Prosperity
• Being Black in Corporate America
• The State of Black Women in Corporate America
• Recidivism Reentry Employment  Reform – Correctional Control 2018  | Incarceration and Supervision by State

Sample Policies and Legislation

• California Proposition 16, Repeal Proposition 209 Affirmative Action Amendment (2020)
• Accountable Capitalism Act
• Automatic Expungement for Certain Cases, HB 431
• Convictions: expungement: incarcerated individual hand crews, AB 2147
• Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System
• Disability Inclusive Policies  
• Decriminalizing Sex Work, H.B.S6419

Web Sources

• Urban Ventures– Facts About Generational Poverty
• Clean Slate Initiative Toolkit 

Environment

Reports

• Clean Energy Financing (Green Bank Design)
• 6 Ways State Leaders Can Create Safe and Healthy Minority Communities

Sample Policies and Legislation

• A National Scan of Policies for Environmental Justice 
• EQUITABLE AND JUST NATIONAL CLIMATE PLATFORM (Clean Energy Reform)
• Earth Bill of Rights
• Climate Equity Act of 2020 Bill H.R.8019
• Summary of the Clean Air Act

Web Sources

• Earth Justice
• Policy Link– National research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity

Reports

• Improve the Delivery of Legal Services 2019 Report and Recommendations (Supreme Court of Arizona)
• Access to Justice Gap, Reimagining Regulation 2019 Report
• Fraud and Unmet needs: Preying on the ignorance of consumers who cannot afford attorneys
• Campaign Finance Reform Report
• Race, Gender & Money in Politics Report
• Designing Individual Public Engagement Experiences: City Hall Virtual Participation

Sample Policies and Legislation: 

• For the People Act of 2019, H.R.1
• Help America Vote Act of 2002 HR 7427
• Improving Oakland Digital Engagement Through Public Participation

Web Sources 

• Urban Institute Policy Centers List
• Education for Self Governance
• Equitable Policy Proposals
• Freedom of Information Act
• Public Records Transparency & Access
• Legislation Tracker (Federal)
• Legislation Tracker (California)
• Library of Congress
• Ballotpedia
• Tracks Congress
• Campaign Finance Data
• Dark Money – Campaign Financing for Elections
• 17 Ways Companies Can Help Americans Vote Safely

Reparations and Equity Infrastructure

Reports 

• Why We Need Reparations for Black Americans
• Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative, City of Long Beach
• Tools to Integrate Racial Equity in Black Communities 
• Racial Equity Goals & Strategies

Sample Policies and Legislation

• Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all, H.Res.702
• Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, H.R.40
• Sample City Plans for Racial Equality

Legal System & Regulations

Reports 

• Ethical Obligations of Judges in Collecting Legal Financial Obligations and Other Debts 
• Legal Services Task Force: Recommendations

Web Sources

• Prison Policy Initiative’s Legal Resource Database
• ABA Free Legal Resources for the Public
• Unlocking Legal Regulations

Housing

Reports

• Municipal Green Building Resolution 38249
• Building Environmental Sustainable Communities
• Culturally and Environmentally Responsive Housing 
• Home Loan Improvement Data
• Credit Discrimination
• Solidarity for Climate Action

Sample Legislation

• Emergency Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act
• Housing is a Human Right Act of 2020, H.R.6308 
• Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, S.3066
• The Fair Housing Act
• Undoing Racist Zoning or Lending Laws in Key States

Web Sources

• Explicit Housing Segregation Policies
• Embedding Racial Equity in Housing

Technology and Surveillance

• Technological Code of Ethics 2018 ACM Code
• Open Data, Freedom of Information, and the Future of Government Transparency
• Mass Violations of BLM Protestors Rights
• Right to Assemble
• Automated Advocates: Technology Design Policy
• Technology for Justice & Equity
• Contract for the Web
• The Principles of a Human-Centered Safety Net
• Analysis and comparative review of equality data collection practices in the European Union, 2017
• Psychological Distress of Living Under Surveillance

Sample Policies and  Legislation

• Foreign Advanced Technology Surveillance Accountability Act, H.R.7307
• Sample Government Policies/Laws Recognizing Inherent Racism in Surveillance Technology
• Sample School Policies that Create Access for Low-Income Students to Internet Infrastructure
• Sample Policies Providing Access to WiFi and High-Speed Internet

Web Sources 

• Data & Human Rights
• Center for Humane Technology
• Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led Protests Against Police Violence

Police Violence and Criminal-Legal System 

Reports

• Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue
• Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study
• Health Not Bail
• Bail Reform

Web Sources

• Institute for Justice
• How the Cash Bail System Endangers the Health of Black Americans
• Releasing Aging People from Prison
• Nix the Six – Police Union Reform
• Racial Profiling: Past, Present, and Future?, American Bar Association

Women & Girls

Reports

• California Blueprint for Women's Pandemic Economic Response
• Black Women’s Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities
• Include Sex Workers in the COVID-19 Response

Sample Policies and Legislation

• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, SCR-78
• Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 
• End preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity with Omnibus Act of 2020 S. 3424
• Justice for Incarcerated Moms Act H.R.6129
• Protecting the Health and Wellness of Babies and Pregnant Women in Custody Act H.R.7718
• Amnesty International policy on state obligations to respect, protect and fulfill the human rights of sex workers

2LGBTQIA+

Reports

• How the Trump Administration is Expanding Religious Exemptions to Gut Civil Rights Protections and Codify Discrimination Against People of Minority Faiths, Women and People who are LGBTQ
• Consider the policy needs of bisexual people of color
• Healing Resources for Black, Queer and Trans Communities
• The Trevor Project Research Brief: Black LGBTQ Youth Mental Health

Sample Policies and Legislation

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer (LGBTQ) Health Issues
• Healthcare Resources for Black Trans and Queer Community

Web Sources

• Advancing Equality for LGBTQ Families

Health

Reports

• Civil Commitment and the Mental Health Care Continuum: Historical Trends and Principles for Law and Practice
• Accessing Benefits during a Public Health Crisis

Sample Policies and Legislation 

• Real Education for Healthy Youth Act HR 3602/S 1653
• Medicare Mental Health Access Act HR 1173/S 448
• Coronavirus Relief for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act of 2020, H.R. 6305 (116th) 
• Responding To Behavioral Health Crises

Web Sources 

• Mental Health America
• The Black-White Disability Gap Increases with Age 
• A Guide to Disability Rights Laws
• National Black Justice Coalition
• Criminalization of People with Mental Illness Treatment Advocacy Center Technology and Surveillance
• Technological Code of Ethics 2018 ACM Code
• Open Data, Freedom of Information, and the Future of Government Transparency
• Mass Violations of BLM Protestors Rights
• Right to Assemble
• Automated Advocates: Technology Design Policy
• Technology for Justice & Equity
• Contract for the Web
• The Principles of a Human-Centered Safety Net
• Analysis and comparative review of equality data collection practices in the European Union, 2017
• Psychological Distress of Living Under Surveillance

Sample Policies and  Legislation

• Foreign Advanced Technology Surveillance Accountability Act, H.R.7307
• Sample Government Policies/Laws Recognizing Inherent Racism in Surveillance Technology
• Sample School Policies that Create Access for Low-Income Students to Internet Infrastructure
• Sample Policies Providing Access to WiFi and High-Speed Internet

Web Sources 

• Data & Human Rights
• Center for Humane Technology
• Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led Protests Against Police Violence