Project Work
We’ll share our work on the course webpage as a way of contributing to the emerging efforts at promoting equity through policy.
The Meaning of Equity
In this first project, we explored what “equity” means to the federal government by coding the content of the recently released Equity Action Plans submitted by federal agencies. Based on our reading and discussion, we created a simple coding scheme to capture potential dimensions of equity. Working in teams, we coded 19 of the 23 agency plans.
Each team provided additional narrative interpretation describing how equity was being used in their focal agencies, how this differed across agencies, and what implications this has for how target populations are understood or the potential for equitable change.
- Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and United States Agency for International Development
- Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency
- Department of Education, Department of Veteran Affairs, and the Department of Defense
- Department of Agriculture, Department of Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of State, General Services Administration
- Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor
Policy Assessment Briefs
Stay tuned!