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On Day One of our administration, we made clear that Maryland would refuse to tolerate a widening racial wealth gap.
The racial wealth gap affects all of us: It hurts our economy, restrains job growth, and limits our potential as a state. Over the last two decades, racial inequality has cost the American economy $16 trillion.
That cost will continue to grow if we wait. That’s why we’ve taken major actions in the last few weeks:
📈 At Johns Hopkins University, we announced a new fund to help entrepreneurs of color access capital so they can grow their businesses.
🏠 In Baltimore’s Orchard Ridge neighborhood, we kicked off our UPLIFT program to help raise property values in disinvested neighborhoods affected by redlining.
🏗️ During Road to Careers in Upper Marlboro, we awarded $4 million in funding to strengthen apprenticeships and job training programs.
🔨 At Bethel AME Church in Cambridge, I announced the first round of “Just Communities” designations to prioritize investments for neighborhoods once left behind by exclusionary policies.
I also announced that I would issue nearly 7,000 pardons for simple cannabis possession, building on my historic executive clemency order from last year, where I pardoned 175,000 state convictions for cannabis possession.
While the President divests from Black and underserved communities, dismantles minority business programs, and bans books about our history, in Maryland, we are proving there’s a better way.
Together, we’re going to continue the work of repair so we can deliver results — not just for certain groups, but for every single Marylander.
Your Governor,
Wes Moore
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