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Achieving Economic and Racial Justice for Black Workers: Policy Priorities for 2021 and Beyond.

As the nation recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, we must define what economic justice and racial justice look like for Black workers in the 21st century. Join EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy Feb. 24, for a discussion that identifies essential policies for achieving recovery, as well as necessary structural and systemic changes that are key to remedying long standing racial disparities in the labor market.

Featured speakers:

Marc Bayard, Director, Institute for Policy Studies Black Worker Initiative

Rebecca Dixon, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project

Kyle Moore, PREE Economist, Economic Policy Institute

Moderator: Valerie Wilson, PREE Director, Economic Policy Institute

Register for “Achieving Economic and Racial Justice for Black Workers: Policy Priorities for 2021 and Beyond.”

Time: 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Feb. 24

Details: https://tinyurl.com/1ly6jcu0

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