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The Racial Wealth Divide in South Bend <br />SEPTEMBER 20178 For more information, visit www.prosperitynow.org <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH BEND <br />Like many former industrial manufacturing hubs, South Bend has had to rely on its anchor institutions, <br />such as higher education, the medical sector and what is left of the manufacturing sector, to sustain its <br />economy. The city has leveraged anchor institutions such as the University of Notre Dame, Beacon Medical <br />Group and AM General (which still provides thousands of manufacturing-based jobs in the area) to foster <br />economic growth for the region. <br />As South Bend works to strengthen the economic well-being of all residents and advance Indiana’s fourth- <br />largest city into the 21st-century economy, it is important that racial economic equity is a frame used in all <br />facets of its future economic development planning to ensure the racial divide of the past is not continued <br />into the future. Associated Black Charities has created a helpful tool—Ten Essential Questions for Policy <br />Development Review and Evaluation—that can be used as a framework to help ensure equitable economic <br />development. <br />TEN ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND EVALUATION <br />1) How is an equity lens incorporated within the policy? <br />2) Does the policy explicitly account for potential racially disparate outcomes? If so, how? If not, how can it be <br />incorporated? <br />3) How is an equity lens incorporated in tracking policy outcomes? <br />4) Will the policy increase access and opportunity for communities of color? How? <br />5) Will the policy have a positive impact on racial/ethnic equity, inclusion and full participation of all people (in <br />the process, in implementation, in breadth of outreach and participation, in decision-making and culture of <br />decision-making, etc.)? <br />6) Will the policy protect against racial violence, racial profiling and discrimination? How? <br />7) What are the mechanisms in place to ensure accountability (such as equity-focused benchmarks or indicators)? <br />8) Do the lens and tools for accountability incorporate a racial equity framework? How? <br />9) Are there changes that could be made to make the policy more equitable and inclusive? <br /> What are the economic and social benefits of incorporating an equity lens in this policy? <br />PEOPLE OF SOUTH BEND PHOTO <br />10)