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
A certified B Corp that is supporting leaders and groups serving vulnerable communities to do their jobs to the fullest, with improved well-being, sustainability and results. To learn more about Sweet Livity, you can hear our full conversation in episode #21.
Is a cannabis brand created in partnership with Curaleaf that donates 10% of all sales to the efforts of supporting people incarcerated for cannabis possession offenses and supporting them upon reentry to society.
Is a national, nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to cannabis criminal justice reform. They aim to end America’s policy of cannabis criminalization, as well as to repair the harms of this discriminatory and counterproductive crusade.
You can hear our full conversation with Fab 5 Freddy, Bernard Noble, and Sarah Gersten of The Last Prisoner Project in episode #28.
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