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United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #10 is Reduced Inequality. You will hear from certified B Corp Sweet Livity on thinking about inequalities in the workplace and we dive deep into a public policy that breeds inequality right here in the United States with hip hop icon Fab 5 Freddy, The executive Director of the Last Prisoner Project, and you will hear from Bernard Noble who was affected firsthand by these injustices. 

Additional Learning & Resources Around Reduced Inequality
Breakdown of Inmates by Offense - Maintained by Federal Bureau of Prisons

Convicted - A Report on How Corporations Exploit the 13th Amendment’s Loophole for Profit from the Corporate Accountability Lab

Incarceration Rates By Country 2023

Increased Incarceration Does Not Reduce Violent Crime - Findings from the US Department of Justice

Private Companies Producing with US Prison Labor in 2020 - From Corporate Accountability Lab

Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality - 20 Facts about U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know

Vagrancy Act of 1866

Book Recommendations (encourage to purchase from black owned book stores)
The Will to Change - bell hooks

How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi

The New Jim Crow  - Michelle Alexander

Helpful Links from the United Nations
UN SDG 10 Reduced Inequality Targets

UN SDG 10 Overview

Links to the Businesses Highlighted in this Episode

Sweet Livity

A certified B Corp that is supporting leaders and groups serving vulnerable communities to do their jobs to the fullest, with improved well-being, sustainability and results. To learn more about Sweet Livity, you can hear our full conversation in episode #21.

B Noble

Is a cannabis brand created in partnership with Curaleaf that donates 10% of all sales to the efforts of supporting people incarcerated for cannabis possession offenses and supporting them upon reentry to society. 

The Last Prisoner Project 

Is a national, nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to cannabis criminal justice reform. They aim to end America’s policy of cannabis criminalization, as well as to repair the harms of this discriminatory and counterproductive crusade. 

You can hear our full conversation with Fab 5 Freddy, Bernard Noble, and Sarah Gersten of The Last Prisoner Project in episode #28.

Dirigo Collective Website