New Report: Prosperity 2050: Is Equity the Superior Growth Model?

Posted by on May 01, 2011

Last Friday, a standing-room-only crowd packed the auditorium at the DC offices of Center for American Progress (CAP) to engage in a long-overdue discussion about the critical role of equity in America’s economic growth.

At the event, PolicyLink and CAP released a new framing paper, “Prosperity 2050: Is Equity the Superior Growth Model?,” that we hope will spark a new conversation on the role of economic growth in our changing nation.

http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.6744333/k.9947/Prosperity_2050.htm

In the months leading up to Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit this November, PolicyLink is going to be focusing even more on this nexus between equity and growth.

By bringing the voices of advocates, economists, and community leaders into the discussion, we will demonstrate why investing in low-income people and communities of color is the only way for America to compete in tomorrow’s global economy.

Watch Last Week’s Discussion

As USC’s Manuel Pastor, one of the nation’s leading voices on the connections between equity and growth, said Friday, “More equitable societies produce more rapid economic growth.”

We hope you will join us in this vital next step for the equity movement.

Thank you,
Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder and CEO
PolicyLink