Support indigenous and community leadership through small business financing and community capacity building. Those communities that are most impacted by our inequitable food system have the best understanding of what is needed in order to make change. By lifting up community leaders to do this work, changes made will have the most traction and staying power.
Advocate for labor rights and more balanced ownership of the food system. On an economic level, if the people who work food system jobs were paid a living wage, there would be a significant multiplier effect in terms of increased money circulating in our economy.
On a human level, the people who grow, process, package, prepare and otherwise handle our food supply deserve a fair wage and equal opportunity to own food-based businesses. Invest in immediate solutions in our communities, schools and farms. Innovative approaches to addressing inequitable circumstances in all of these settings are necessary in the short term.
Offer tools and resources to guide creation of racially equitable solutions. The report includes numerous tools for food system stakeholders to evaluate their own work through the lens of racial equity. Other articles in this series: Does race matter when seeking access to healthy food? Part 1. Did you find this article useful? Please tell us why Submit. Register today. By Carla J. Kimbrough Race still matters in the United States, especially for black boys and men, according to a new study from The Equality of Opportunity Project.
Share This Story. November 1, And so we wanted to know whether or not that was a reporting issue. So we looked into actually trying to disaggregate data sets ourselves, and it became increasingly complicated, part of it driven because of our low population density. And so there were privacy issues with some of the data that was available. And the other part of it was the fact that people just didn't think it was important to collect this information.
So that was a huge driving force for us, recognizing that if people don't think something is important, they're not going to collect information related to it.
So that made us really ask the question of, well, does race matter in Wyoming? Why do people think it doesn't? Of course, to us, it matters. But in general, what is going on that makes people think that this is not an issue that we have to dig into? TW: And so what did you find out about that? Because the findings are really interesting and important, but what I'm more interested in is what you discovered about why people don't think it matters,. And when you discussed that number with people, they were inordinately surprised.
Now, I don't have a survey that can prove that but just based on anecdotal evidence from the people that we spoke with, that was definitely true. So we decided we had to take a step back and really look at, do people in Wyoming actually understand that we have people of color here?
And do they understand issues of equality, and equity and race and ethnicity? And, and what all of that means when you combine it together?
So our goal in creating the "Does Race Matter in Wyoming? SD: Well, it was a baby step. So first, we wanted to get the information out there so that people would have time to digest it, and think about it and consider it. And also understand what racial makeup looks like for the state. Because the Wind River Reservation is so big in Wyoming and big, I mean, big in idea, big in voice, big in thought, and probably our highest area of racial tension.
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