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350 LTE

Welcome to the 350 MA Letters-to-the-Editor team. We're glad you joined. Here's a link to a short slideshow that gives you a high-level view of what we do: http://bit.ly/350ma-lte-slides And here's the link to our "user guide" document: http://bit.ly/350-LTE-Team Please take a quick look and let us know if you have more questions. Fred Hewett, Larry Rosenberg, Mary Memmott fred.hewett@gmail.com larry.rosenberg@gmail.com memmottm@gmail.com

Green Economics

An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

CourtWatch

CourtWatch as a Model for something we might do

• a description of court watch
• my experience
• how this might this something like courtwatch could be used by 350

Description

• Who: Sponsored by ACLU or other community organizations. Some paid organizers and the rest volunteers.
• What: Apply pressure on DA's and elected officials with facts.
• Where: There are many CourtWatch projects world wide. Seems like every state. Many countries: Poland, France. Multiple project around the state.
• Why: Mostly focussed on helping poor people get fair treatment in court, which includes people of color and immigrants.
• How: Volunteers collect data by race. Analysis by researchers. Lawyers present findings to DA and press.

My Experience

• About a year ago I signed up for the Bail Fund. They got my name from my Synagogue, Shirat Hiyam. They never called me back. But they did give my name to ACLU's CourtWatch. 
• I helped accused say "Judge I do not understand the charges. I want to talk to my lawyer". You get more time. Might get dismissed. Flawed cases.
• Some judges welcomed me. My presence changed things for the better.
• Security guard from Lynn said everyone knew when I was in the building.
• Turned in about 10% of the cases. 40 times.
• Saw first hand how wealth tips the scales of justice. We are wasting money.
• Rollins, globe, changes in cell phones in Lynn.

How we might adapt this

• Collect data on constituencies, new programs and bills passed
• Analyze, compare, present and publish

Income inequality in Massachusetts

Income inequality in Massachusetts
https://www.epi.org/multimedia/unequal-states-of-america/#/Massachusetts

https://statisticalatlas.com/state/Massachusetts/Household-Income

https://www.tpi.org/sites/default/files/pdf/the_transfer_of_wealth_in_greater_boston_the_toll_of_the_recession_and_prospects_for_the_future.pdf

Economic Policy Institute

Economic Policy Institute | epi.org/blog

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
cbpp.org | offthechartsblog.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

Census

https://2020census.gov/en.html

List of U.S. states by Gini coefficient of income inequality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_coefficient

wealth-gap-widens-as-boston-booms/

https://www.baystatebanner.com/2018/10/17/wealth-gap-widens-as-boston-booms/

Wealth inequality in the United States

Wealth inequality in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States


Household Net Worth Top 1% 90th to 99th 50th to 90th Bottom 50% Total
Q4 2016 ($ trillions) 29.18 34.59 26.53 1.08 91.38
Q4 2019 ($ trillions) 36.80 41.69 31.63 1.66 111.78

Bottom 50% has 1.5% of the wealth.


https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-fact/median-value-wealth-race-ff03112019
Brookings Institute

White 170k, 60%
Hispanic 21K, 18%
Black 17k, 13%