Behind The Network Of Outside, Left-Wing Groups Pushing Racial Policies In Cities, Counties Across America | The Daily Caller

Behind The Network Of Outside, Left-Wing Groups Pushing Racial Policies In Cities, Counties Across America | The Daily Caller:

A group tied to USC called the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) functions to create research — at the behest of funders — that promises billions of dollars in economic growth. Another set of groups introduce the research to individual cities and counties, where it is used to justify a mandate to include “equity” in every government policy. The language is often vague and comprised of obscure jargon.
That’s the stage Montgomery County, Maryland, is at now, where an official sympathetic to the movement, Uma Ahluwalia, told The Washington Post: “It’s nice to throw that word, ‘equity,’ around, but what does it mean?”
Next, the government solicits and follows advice from a third set of groups — often affiliated with the others —