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Racial justice leaders ask Senate Government Operations to advance health-equity office, data collection and funding
Summary
Reverend Mark Hughes, executive director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and cochair of the Health Equity Advisory Commission, told the Senate Government Operations Committee on Jan. 28 that his organization plans to press lawmakers this biennium for a statutory Office of Health Equity, expanded criminal-justice data collection and increased funding for the Vermont Human Rights Commission.
Reverend Mark Hughes, executive director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and cochair of the Health Equity Advisory Commission, told the Senate Government Operations Committee on Jan. 28 that his organization plans to press lawmakers this biennium for a statutory Office of Health Equity, expanded criminal-justice data collection and increased funding for the Vermont Human Rights Commission.
Hughes said the alliance wants the Legislature to support an "$800,000-plus increase" in the general fund appropriation for the Human Rights Commission and to advance an equal-protection constitutional amendment that is moving into its…
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