The City of Omaha and the Omaha-based Nebraska Center for Justice Research are to host two community engagement meetings to gather input for the city’s poverty elimination action plan required under a new state law. (Courtesy of City of Omaha and Nebraska Center for Justice Research)
OMAHA — Two Omaha meetings are scheduled for Oct. 1 and Oct. 3 to gather public input to be used as the city creates a poverty elimination action plan.
Such a plan, required of Nebraska’s two largest cities, is the result of a law passed by the Nebraska Legislature earlier this year. The aim of the legislation introduced by State Sen. Terrell McKinney of North Omaha is to better understand and address poverty and ultimately lift economic circumstances for poor families across the state.
Omaha’s plan is being coordinated by the Nebraska Center for Justice Research of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the City of Omaha Human Rights & Relations Department.