By Teresa Garcia, LISC Program Officer

Even when economic development programs succeed in boosting livelihoods and community investments, they too often fail to benefit the very people and places experiencing the harmful impacts of long-term, systemic economic deprivation. That’s a failure of commitment. Here, LISC program officer Teresa Garcia makes the case for a new approach to economic development that centers the communities most in need—and makes equity its guiding aim.

LISC & Brookings

A brief from LISC and Brookings that presents early outcomes and lessons from five cities that have implemented community-centered economic inclusion for at least one year