Posts Tagged ‘Economic inequality’
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – US economist proposes $12 trillion in slavery reparations
Professor Darity and Ms. Mullen outline that to eliminate the existing Black-White wealth gap an allocation of between $10 trillion and $12 trillion, or about $800,000 per black household, should be paid.
Read MoreHow For-Profit Colleges Have Targeted and Taken Advantage of Black Students
Predatory lending by for-profit-colleges target black students resulting in 78% of students with educational loan debts.
Read MoreBlack Federal Employees Disproportionately Affected as Government Shutdown Ties for Longest Ever
By Anne Branigin, The Root The partial government shutdown over Donald Trump’s border wall has now tied for the longest ever, with substantial portions of the federal government nonoperational for the third straight week. And with the stalemate between Trump, Republicans and the Democratically controlled House of Representatives holding strong, that record will likely be…
Read MoreMore police, criminalization and gang suppression will not end homelessness in San Francisco
This article is written about homelessness and wealth inequality in San Francisco and the way homelessness has been criminalized and is being policed.
Read MoreSuit Alleges ‘Scheme’ in Criminal Costs Borne by New Orleans’s Poor
A lawsuit filed against New Orleans criminal district court alleges that it runs a “scheme” in which the poor are jailed if they fall behind paying fines. “The extent to which every actor in the local New Orleans legal system depends on this money for their own survival is shocking,” said Alec Karakatsanis, a founder of Equal Justice Under Law, a civil rights group, and one of the lawyers who filed the suit….
Read More10 Years After Katrina
Ten years later, it is not exactly right to say that New Orleans is back. The city did not return, not as it was. The city that exists now, a decade later, is a work in progress, an improvisation that is establishing a new normal.
Read MoreCitizens Stand For Economic Equality With #BlackWorkMatters And The #FightFor15
In a push for racial justice, protesters took to the streets in cities across the country — from New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Sacramento and New Orleans — to demand a $15 per hour minimum wage and the creation of a union for fast food workers.
Read MoreFor African-American Women—and All Women—Let’s Make Every Day Equal Pay Day
Black women make just 64 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts and we need better policies and leaders to change this.
Read MoreCan We Trust Each Other?
By Connie Cass, AP.org We’re not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient of democracy – trust in the other fellow – has been quietly draining away. These days, only one-third of Americans say most…
Read MoreHow We Can Truly Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marion Wright Edelman argues that we must redeem the soul of America to honor Dr. King because it won’t happen by chance.
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