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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

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And in Milwaukee, while Black Americans are only 26 percent of the population, they account for an astounding 81 percent of the deaths there. Second , national policy must incentivize and prioritize the recruitment and deployment of local, proximate leadership. These racial and ethnic disparities are stark but sadly not surprising.