the actions planned, the review nonetheless 9 These agencies and departments were the Council on Economic Advisors (CEA), United States Department of Agricul- indicates that the vast majority of agencies ture (USDA), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of and departments in the sample were able to Defense (DOD), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Homeland Security (D. [...] As the federal and improvement include agencies that re- agency charged with supporting small ceived funding from the Infrastructure Invest- disadvantaged businesses, SBA plans ment and Jobs Act (IIJA) but, at the time of to leverage its authority over federal the release of the EAPs, had not spoken to the procurement goal-setting to assign alignment of equity and infrastructure spending “ambitiou. [...] The have many times the wealth of Black people and strategies developed must result in long-term and other people of color, as a result of the history significant shifts in policy, resourcing, and systems, and current reality of institutional racism in mul- centering frontline communities as leaders in the tiple systems, is an example of structural racism. [...] Distinction between “equity” and “equal- causes of disparities refers to the degree ity” refers to the degree to which an agency to which agency or department analysis of or department appears to understand the barriers identifies root causes of racial dis- distinction between these two terms rather parities and the degree to which the actions than conflates the concepts. [...] Identification of strategies likely to pos- and “structural racism” refers to the de- itively impact people who are financially gree to which agencies and departments insecure refers to the presence of strategies 32 RACE FORWARD | POLICYLINK | ASSESSMENT OF FEDERAL EQUITY ACTION PL ANS (EAPs) Appendix C make explicit reference to these phenomena in the plans.
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