Equity started to bubble up in the activist world in Barack Obama's second term. JPMorgan Chase committed $30 billion towards racial equity to provide. Koda: Equity is an ideal but depending on how you actually want to go about trying to achieve that, it could be anything from as simple as offering forms for government benefits in other languages. The Great Awakening continues to spread on the left. This really identity conscious way of thinking tries to achieve more equal outcomes.
Everyone is fighting about “equity.” If only they could define it. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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