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Place Matters Mid-Mississippi Delta (MS)
Team Profile Summary The Mid-Mississippi Delta Place Matters Team (MMD) includes Coahoma, Quitman, Sunflower, and Washington Counties. The Team has targeted childhood obesity as the focus of its work. With the reduction…
Place Matters Martin Luther King, Jr. County (WA)
Team Profile Summary In King County, there are racial inequities in well-being that are influenced by such factors as: institutionalized racism, income, access to living-wage jobs, access to education and resource-rich…
Place Matters King County (WA)
Team Profile Summary In King County, there are racial inequities in well-being that are influenced by such factors as: institutionalized racism, income, access to living-wage jobs, access to education and resource-rich…
Place Matters Cuyahoga County (OH)
Team Profile Summary The Cuyahoga Place Matters team’s focus is to ensure health implications and equity considerations are at the forefront as policymakers and others make decisions that substantially impact…
Place Matters Cook County (IL)
Team Profile Summary Food justice is the policy reform focus for the Cook County Place Matters team. Our vision of food justice is of a food system where “nobody gets…
Place Matters Boston (MA)
Team Profile Summary The Boston Place Matters Team frames its work around racism as a root cause of inequities in health and recognizes comprehensive, multilevel racial justice strategies as fundamental to achieving…
BERNALILLO COUNTY (NM)
Team Profile Summary Policy decisions made in the past have left too many of our residents living in communities that offer few resources. Not only do poor communities and communities…
Place Matters Baltimore City (MD)
Team Profile Summary Equity Matters supports a vision for Baltimore City in which all children, youth, adults and elders have equal access to social, educational, political, employment and health, equal…
ALAMEDA COUNTY (CA)
Team Profile Summary The Alameda County PLACE MATTERS team promotes health equity through a community-centered local policy agenda focused on economic development/income, education, housing, incarceration, land use, and transportation. For additional…
Companies lower healthcare costs for workers
With the passing and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, more than 7 million Americans have been afforded the opportunity to sign up for comprehensive healthcare coverage. A provision that came…