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Tag: racial wealth gap

Posted inPerspectives

Public banking can help bridge the racial wealth gap in the post-pandemic recovery

by Ameya Pawar and Harish I. Patel July 7, 2020July 7, 2020

By using public money to create local funds, public banks can reverse decades of racist disinvestment to repair Black and Brown communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 recession.

Posted inPerspectives

Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better

by Calvin Schermerhorn June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
Posted inPerspectives

Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership?

by Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone June 18, 2020June 18, 2020
Posted inPerspectives

Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death

by Sharon Austin January 24, 2020February 28, 2020
Posted inPerspectives

How the richest Americans benefited the most from the US economy’s longest ever expansion – in 3 charts

by Steven Pressman July 3, 2019July 3, 2019
Posted inRace and Culture

The plunder of black wealth in Chicago, captured in film

by Bob Chiarito June 5, 2019July 1, 2019
Posted inEducation, Perspectives

The SAT’s new ‘adversity score’ is a poor fix for a problematic test

by Leigh Patel May 31, 2019May 31, 2019
Posted inGovernment and Politics, Perspectives, Race and Culture

The case for African American reparations, explained

by Joe R. Feagin April 26, 2019April 26, 2019
Posted inEconomic Development, Perspectives

Worker-owned co-ops: a model to build wealth for low-income communities in Chicago

by G. Sequane Lawrence May 31, 2018June 7, 2018
Posted inEconomic Development, Employment and Labor, Perspectives

Fifty years later, what the Kerner report tells us about race in Chicago today

by William Scarborough, Kasey Henricks and Amanda E. Lewis February 26, 2018February 26, 2018

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