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15 <br />1NHAT ®O ORANGE COUNTI( REaIEN1° AN7'? <br />Residents that participated in the Pennies Tool, primarily, gave money to broad <br />categories of social justice although a number of residents designated specific issues of <br />concern. <br />Approximately 550 residents spent $7,169.002 on social justice. The categories <br />of social justice are ordered below in descending order of importance based on the <br />amount of money allotted to each category by Orange County residents. <br />1. ELIMINATION OF OPPRESSION <br />2. ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY <br />~. PHYSICALLY AND N~ENTALLY SAFE COMMUNITIES <br />4. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE <br />5. CIVIC PARTICIPATION <br />G. OTHER <br />Elimination of Oppression received 26.2% of the dollars, followed by economic <br />self-sufficiency at 20.4%, followed by physically and mentally safe communities at <br />16.9%. The next two categories differed by only 1/5 of a percentage point at 13.3% <br />and 13.1%, environmental justice followed by civic participation respectively. Finally, <br />the other category garnered 10.1% of the total tax dollars and included issues such as <br />reproductive justice, animal protection and taking money from the rich to give to the <br />poor among other things. A substantial amount of dollars were allocated to specific <br />a 550 participants would have spent $7150, however, not all participants chose to spend all of their allotted tax <br />dollars. It is likely that more than 550 residents participated but they did not spend all allocated dollars and were pot <br />represented in the final tally of residents <br />ORANGE COUNTPSOCIAL JUSTICE GOAL REPORT ,;, Page 8 of 59 <br />