The Accelerator’s latest paper, written with our partners at the Nowak Metro Finance Lab and Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth, is intended to sound a loud alarm and provoke a major shift in policy, practice and capacity building. Specifically, Averting a Lost Decade: Rethinking an Inclusive Recovery for Disadvantaged Neighborhoods, co-authored by Accelerator Partner and Nowak Lab Director Bruce Katz and Accelerator CEO Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, concludes that unless major structural changes are made across government and society, the nation runs the risk of a lost decade with racial wealth disparities that are greater and neighborhoods that are worse off than the period that preceded the pandemic.
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