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Our Issues
We turn people power into public policy. As a joint venture of the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), and National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA), we advance bipartisan social justice policy in 4 issue areas across our communities.
The Stakes
Good public policy changes lives.
And the numbers speak for themselves.
1 in 3 Americans
1 in 3 Americans has a criminal record, which can result in over 40K barriers limiting access to jobs, housing, education, voting, rights, and opportunities.
Source: National Reentry Resource Center
1 in 5 fatalities
1 in 5 fatal police shootings involve a person in mental health crisis.
Source: The Appeal
46,000 lives
46,000 Americans die from gun violence every year—an average of over 125 lives lost per day. This is a public health epidemic that disproportionately impacts youth of color
Source: Giffords Law Center
32,000 children
The U.S. confines kids at a rate 2X the global average: nearly 32,000 on any given day.
Source: Prison Policy Initiative
1 in 3 voters
In any given U.S. election, 1 in 3 eligible voters doesn’t cast a ballot. Less than half of young people ages 18-29 voted in the 2024 election.
Sources: Pew Research Center, Tufts CIRCLE
$557 billion
Gun violence costs our economy an estimated $557 billion annually, on top of the incalculable cost of lives lost and quality of life harmed.
Source: Harvard Medical School
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HEAR OUR STORIES
The Power of Basketball is a collection of essays by NBA & WNBA players, coaches, and team governors about their personal journeys in social justice–released by the Coalition, the Vera Institute of Justice, and The New Press.
Get your copy at any major bookseller!
Share your reflections about the book on social media, tag @nbacoalition, and include #PowerOfBasketball.
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