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A Racial Equity Impact Assessment — or REIA for short — systematically examines how a proposed decision can impact different racial and ethnic groups.
This two-page brief hits the highlights for racial change. It tells what a Racial Equity Impact Assessment is, why it’s important, and how decision makers can use this new tool to help reduce, eliminate and prevent racial inequities and discrimination.
Institutional racism is the routine — and often invisible and unintentional — creation of inequitable social opportunities and outcomes. And it remains a very real problem in America today.
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