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White House officials urge counties to use climate and economic justice screening tool when applying for federal grants
Summary
White House officials demonstrated the Climate and Economic Justice Screening (CJIS) tool and urged counties to document equity impacts in grant applications, offering data and accountability guidance and pointing to grants already citing CJIS and Justice40 language.
Kylie Patterson, deputy assistant to the president on racial justice and equity at the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, deputy director for environmental justice data and evaluation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), told a California State Association of Counties webinar that counties should anticipate questions about equity and use the federal Climate and Economic Justice Screening (CJIS) tool when preparing grant applications.
"We all do better when we all do better," Patterson said, framing the Biden-Harris administration's equity agenda and telling county grant teams to document disparities, accountability, resources and executive sponsorship — an acronym she summarized as DARE (Data, Accountability, Resources, Executive sponsorship). Patterson cited research estimating large economic losses from unresolved opportunity gaps, noting the…
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