TOGETHER, PROGRESS IS POSSIBLE
The Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP) partners with policy thinkers and doers to amplify their efforts and bridge gaps in policy infrastructure. We act as a connector, convener, and policy entrepreneur across issues and states, translating good ideas to the Southern context. Our goal is to advance policies that improve economic security, healthcare access, and environmental justice for all Southerners.
The South has the capacity for great innovation.
Confronting structural racism and implicit bias?
Louisville is part of a national pilot on racial equity.
Leading on criminal justice reform and re-entry strategies
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Universal Pre-K?
A Georgia governor showed what’s possible. Florida voters stepped up when leaders wouldn’t.
Household income of adults
who were raised in low-income families
who were raised in low-income families
Together, we can answer the South’s deep challenges
It is common for children born into poverty in the South to stay in poverty. That’s not the case everywhere in America, and should not be a norm in the South.
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Opportunity Insights and US Census Bureau © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap
Opportunity Insights and US Census Bureau © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap
9 million
Uninsured Southeners
1.6 million
African American children in poverty in the South
$16 billion
Federal dollars left on the table each year because Southern states fail to expand Medicaid
1.8 million
Southerners in prison/jail or on probation/parole
$16 billion
Federal dollars left on the table each year because Southern states fail to expand Medicaid
11.7 Million Southerners in Poverty
Highest infant and maternal mortality rate in the U.S.
SEAP —
bridge,
translator,
partner
SEAP — bridge, translator, partner
