Welcome to This Week in Equity Engagement on Twitter (TWEET) for the week of November 2, 2015. Once again, we have a bunch of great social and environmental justice discussion to highlight. Let’s get to it!
California’s prison spending continues to pace the country.
http://twitter.com/CalBudgetCenter/status/661307572217999361
More and more people around the world are starting to recognize the realities of climate change and are willing to do something about it.
http://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/662358806136020992
Los Angeles is drafting a declaration on climate change.
http://twitter.com/SCOPE_LA/status/661309945678200832
Plan Bay Area is working to promote equity and affordability in the region.
http://twitter.com/TransForm_Alert/status/662356855423897601
Another study shows the dramatic impact the Affordable Care Act has on the country’s uninsured population.
http://twitter.com/atlantic/status/662347403933020160
UC Berkeley reviewed the Farm Bill and found some pretty striking inequities in the U.S. food system.
http://twitter.com/WK_Kellogg_Fdn/status/662356514250883073
One of our founding ethnic partners, the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, shared some strategies to promote equity in prescription drugs.
http://twitter.com/apiahf/status/662398097167806464
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a great new report about the social determinants of health.
http://twitter.com/KaiserFamFound/status/662631343268995074
And finally, UC Berkeley has begun a very cool project to restore century-old recordings from California’s Indian populations.
http://twitter.com/CCUIH_CA/status/662761429167132672
