Michigan disbands racial equity group as tension mounts over opioid money
We discuss the need to include racial equity in opioid settlement spending decisions in light of Michigan stripping power from this group by dissolving and distributing members across other task forces.
Michigan disbands racial equity group as tension mounts over opioid money | Bridge Michigan
The state spent $148,000 on a racial equity group to offer advice on how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds. But after issuing recommendations, the group said it was ‘silenced.’
Robin Erb
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