Events

Please join us on January 28th for the second webinar in our series, “From Local Innovation to System Change: ARPA Investments Building Towards an Equitable Economy”, "Pathways to Scale: Abolishing Medical Debt for Good", co-hosted by the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy’s Budget Equity Project and the Health and Political Economy Project.

Watch this webinar exploring how cities and counties are using their ARPA funds to make investments that advance racial and economic equity, hosted by Race Forward, the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, and the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Watch the first installment of our webinar series, From Local Innovation to Systemic Change: ARPA Investments Building Toward an Equitable Economy. Part one, Local Leaders Taking Action on Medical Debt, highlights ARPA-driven initiatives advancing economic and health equity. Co-hosted by the Institute’s Budget Equity Project and Health and Political Economy Project, this series explores transformative policy movements driving systemic change.

This dynamic webinar explores how cities and counties across the U.S. are leveraging the unprecedented $130 billion in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to advance equity and drive transformative change. For the first time, federal recovery funds were intentionally guided by a policy framework to target communities of color, tribal communities, and low-income communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and systemic inequities