![]() Equity entails directly addressing barriers to equality while also providing intentional support, specifically to groups who have been historically and systematically disadvantaged. A focus on equity driven programs is key to achieving racial and ethnic equality.Encourage comprehensive criminal justice reform. ![]() ![]() Strengthen efforts to reduce residential segregation.Strengthen legal enforcement of existing laws forbidding racial and ethnic discrimination in hiring and promotion.Strengthen affirmative action programs within the limits imposed by court rulings.Provide accessible and affordable health care services for individuals and families.Improve schooling and increase school funding.Establish well-funded early-childhood intervention programs.Increase the federal and state minimum wage to reflect a living wage.Increase federal aid for the working poor, including earned income credits and child care subsidies for those with children.Adopt a national “full employment” policy involving federally funded job-training and public-works programs.Some of these efforts include the following: ![]() Efforts aimed at such obstacles, then, are in the long run essential to reducing racial and ethnic inequality (Danziger, Reed,
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