PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Halley Potter, NY Daily News
Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014 with a promise to end the “tale of two cities” by fighting economic inequality. His administration’s first big policy initiative — to the tune of roughly $400 million per year — was expanding the city’s pre-kindergarten program, on the path to universal pre-K.
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More
