Our Policy
Platform
We understand that there are many policy, practice, and system changes needed to ensure that everyone in Detroit and Michigan can thrive.
Our 2025 policy platform elevates our priorities while recognizing the need for other structural shifts in policy, systems, and practices to enable a vibrant and prosperous Detroit. We also recognize that our platform may require multi-year commitments and efforts to advance the goals we have identified. (Download the full platform here.)
As a coalition, a number of factors have determined our 2025 policy, practice, and system priorities, including, but not solely limited to, the opportunity to advance an economic justice agenda alongside new leadership at the City of Detroit.
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As a coalition we have identified three, intersecting, policy pillars as central to advancing economic justice in Detroit and in Michigan. Our pillars are:
Our workforce system is simply not designed to meet the vastly different career, education, and training needs of all Detroiters. Despite the great work, commitment, and expertise of providers and organizations in Detroit, the issues we face are structural. We need to build on the progress made over the last decade to create a system that works for all Detroiters, regardless of their education background, work experience, or organization they walk into for help. Let's transform Detroit's workforce system.
Our social safety net is letting too many people fall through the cracks. The policies and funding have not adapted to the needs and changing landscape of our city. Too many people are impoverished, hungry, without safe or adequate housing, and struggling. We need to enact better solutions that do not put the financial burden on the already overtaxed population.
Everyone who wants to work in Detroit should have access to a job, yet too many people are left behind. And we should work to ensure that every job is a quality job. Today, we have a shortage of good jobs in our city and too many Black and Latinx Detroiters work in jobs with inadequate pay, few benefits, little say in the workforce, and insufficient career pathways.