With the legislative session starting next week, the annual Facing Race report is out and calling on legislators to "strive to eliminate inequities."

Full of graphs and charts, it points out how people of color in Washington State disproportionately lack health insurance, fall behind state reading standards, and face hurdles graduating from high school. It also highlights how the state's "morally bankrupt"—to use Seattle representative Reuven Carlyle's phrase—tax system "contributes to growing income inequality."

The report calls for increases in programs to help communities of color, and for funding these increases by taking "common-sense steps toward building a more equitable and adequate revenue system in the coming year." That includes enacting a capital gains tax that could raise, in the report's estimate, about $1.4 billion every two years.

Will the legislature listen?

You could look to who controls its chambers for an answer. Democrats are running the state house, Republicans are running the state senate, and stalemate seems likely. But you should also be looking at this graph (on the left in browsers, above on mobile), which shows the racial makeup of the state legislature as of January 2014.

"To be truly representative," the report says, "government should reflect the makeup of the communities it serves, and lawmakers should consider how their decisions affect racial equity... Today’s Legislature does not adequately reflect the state’s diversity."