Income Inequality Across the West
Speaker:
Jhumpa Bhattacharya, VP of Programs and Strategy, Insight Center
Zemaye Jacobs, Youth Advisory Board Co-Chair, Larkin Street Youth Services
Bianca D.M. Wilson, Senior Scholar of Public Policy, Williams Institute, UCLA
The Western United States has some of the most concentrated wealth as well as some of the highest rates of youth homelessness in the country. This session will examine this imbalance and what we can do to combat income inequality, its detrimental housing impacts, and its contribution to creating and perpetuating the youth homelessness crisis.
