![]() Took executive action to combat violent white supremacy and enhance voting access.Began developing a technology bill of rights.Invested in community violence intervention (CVI) programs.Reenacted the Access to Justice Initiative.Prohibited certain unjust federal law enforcement practices.Provided increased federal grant funding for criminal justice reform.In its first year, the Biden administration: Restoring trust in America’s justice and political systems This report focuses on the administration’s efforts to address systemic inequities in four core and interconnected areas: 1) restoring trust in America’s justice and political systems and ensuring they fairly represent and benefit all Americans 2) building a stronger and more equitable economy for all 3) tackling health inequities and improving public health and 4) promoting a more equitable and sustainable climate. This report also explores the actions the administration should take in its second year in office and beyond that will build on the administration’s efforts to date and accelerate the long march toward a more equitable and just America. Yet, there is still much work to do to forge a path toward equity that respects the fundamental rights and dignity of people of color and opens the doors of opportunity and mobility too long shut to these communities. To that end, this report builds on the comments that the Center for American Progress submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget on July 6, 2021, to assist federal agencies in fulfilling their mandate under this executive order 2 and highlights key policies the Biden administration has implemented over the past year. He issued a historic executive order calling for a “whole-of-government equity agenda that matches the scale of the opportunities and challenges that we face.” 1 The Biden administration’s commitment to a whole-of-government approach to advancing equity provides a unique opportunity to adopt large-scale policy solutions that embody America’s founding ideals of respecting human dignity and promoting equal opportunity.ĭismantling the deeply rooted inequities within the country’s social, economic, and political structures requires an equity agenda that is in equal parts transformative and enduring. On January 20, 2021-day one of his administration-President Biden recognized the urgent need to pursue a bold and comprehensive approach to address these pervasive and intersecting inequities and to deliver on America’s foundational but long-delayed promise of equal opportunity. At the same time, the heart-wrenching loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black lives at the hands of current and former police officers galvanized a massive movement for systemic criminal justice reform. These health and economic crises were compounded by climate disasters that intensified long-standing racial and environmental injustices harming communities of color. The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn magnified deeply entrenched, structural racial inequalities in America’s health and economic systems that left too many of the most underserved even further behind. President Joe Biden entered the oval office during a critical moment in the enduring struggle for racial justice in America.
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