United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #10 is Reduced Inequality. You will hear from certified B Corp Sweet Livity on thinking about inequalities in the workplace and we dive deep into a public policy that breeds inequality right here in the United States with hip hop icon Fab 5 Freddy, The executive Director of the Last Prisoner Project, and you will hear from Bernard Noble who was affected firsthand by these injustices.
Additional Learning & Resources Around Reduced Inequality
Breakdown of Inmates by Offense - Maintained by Federal Bureau of Prisons
Convicted - A Report on How Corporations Exploit the 13th Amendment’s Loophole for Profit from the Corporate Accountability Lab
Incarceration Rates By Country 2023
Increased Incarceration Does Not Reduce Violent Crime - Findings from the US Department of Justice
Private Companies Producing with US Prison Labor in 2020 - From Corporate Accountability Lab
Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality - 20 Facts about U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know
Book Recommendations (encourage to purchase from black owned book stores)
The Will to Change - bell hooks
How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Helpful Links from the United Nations
UN SDG 10 Reduced Inequality Targets
Links to the Businesses Highlighted in this Episode
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