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Day One – Tuesday, October 20, 2020
8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Don’t Fixate On The Racial Wealth Gap: Focus on Undoing Its Root
Causes

• Anne Price, President, INSIGHT

In "Don’t Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap," Anne Price, in partnership with the Roosevelt
Institute, examines how focusing on the root of racial wealth inequality can help us build a
path toward a more sustainable economic and political system.

Join Session Compère Ryan Davis, Skagit Asset Building
Coalition (Community Action of Skagit County), for coffee.

Fresh EBT: Tech Access for Social Impact

• Darren Liddell, Propel

Propel, the creator of FreshEBT, is a free software application used by over 3 million
Americans across the country to manage their food stamp (SNAP) benefits. In this session,
we will review the features of FreshEBT and how it can be used by your clients, discuss the
impact of COVID-19 on SNAP households, and share data about many of the challenges
households receiving SNAP are facing during the pandemic. We will discuss topics ranging
from food insecurity and housing, to receipt of economic impact payments and
unemployment insurance.

Day One Closing

Join Session Compère, Jared Schapiro, Snohomish Asset Building
Collaborative (Workforce Snohomish), and watch our closing short film, “You’re
Good with Money”.