California accelerated the adoption rate of electric vehicles (EVs) through rebates and other operational incentives. However, due to socioeconomic lifestyle burdens, disadvantaged communities have not had full access to these efforts.
The Milken Institute convened a Financial Innovations Lab in Santa Monica in April 2017, bringing together leaders from the community, private investors, policymakers, and corporations to help address California’s gap in electric vehicle adoption in disadvantaged communities. Participants recommended additional electric vehicle rebates, discounts, special programs and other incentives, backed partially by local, state, and private funds. Participants discussed the need for a fully developed public infrastructure network including a clean-energy bus service, vanpools, and car sharing programs, and called for innovative collaboration between policymakers and the private sector, as well as novel financing and policy mechanisms. Finally, participants highlighted the need for outreach to both lenders and borrowers along the value chain of vehicle purchase, charging infrastructure, and battery replacement as additional mechanisms for progress.
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Employers seek to support their employees while normalizing a whole-person approach to substance use disorders (SUD). The response to addiction and the opioid crisis requires a whole-of-society approach, including employers of all sizes...
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In this collection of essays from the Center for the Future of Aging, experts identify challenges and opportunities in realizing the potential of healthy, productive and purposeful aging.
Technical Update Dementia presents a pernicious gender-based health disparity in the United States, inflicting a disproportionate burden on women as both patients and caregivers. Given the rapid increase in the population of older Americans...
Nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 sparked many of the largest US corporations to pledge more than $200 billion to advance racial equity and confront the nation’s history of systemic racism. Nonprofits, government agencies, and...