"We can help close the economic gaps that Black Americans face, and, in so doing, the entire American economy, potentially generating $1-1.5 trillion per year in GDP," Samantha Tweedy, CEO of the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, says in a press release.
The foundation, a nonpartisan coalition of black business leaders, is out to do just that with its " Architecture for Action," which it says is a "first-of-its-kind, data-backed suite of solutions designed to help leaders in the private and philanthropic sectors take meaningful actions to advance Black economic opportunity and prosperity."
According to the Architecture for Action, which was developed with the input of economic mobility practitioners, policy experts, and leaders across sectors, the solutions focus on eight key areas: housing and real-estate, health care, education, criminal justice, financial system, relationship and interpersonal networks, employment and labor market, physical and digital infrastructure, and more.
"We must reshape the systems that make up our economic infrastructure through efforts that are cross-sectoral, comprehensive, and grounded in the lived experience of Black people," Tweedy says in the press release.
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