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Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear in One Generation
Truthout, Thursday, July 12, 2018The most common explanation for what drives the racial wealth gap is lack of Black homeownership. A recent study from Duke University’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity dispels several myths about the racial wealth gap — including that homeownership is the driving... Read More »
What Is A Federal Jobs Guarantee?
Huffington Post, Friday, July 6, 2018How much would it cost? It depends on which version you look at ― and costs would obviously fluctuate based on participation ― but whichever way you cut it, the figures are high. The Levy plan would come in at around $378 billion a year in the first five years, rising to $415... Read More »
Radical Democrats Are Pretty Reasonable
New York Times, Tuesday, July 3, 2018Now, there’s a huge amount of evidence to the effect that minimum wage hikes don’t significantly reduce employment. To be fair, however, $15 is outside the range of historical experience, and you can make a plausible case that in low-productivity regions like much of the south there would be some... Read More »
Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?
Courier Journal, Wednesday, June 27, 2018To be sure, no matter how sensibly and dispassionately one approaches the subject, many whites immediately paint them as angry black people, [reverse] racists, or maniacs. Despite that, while far too many cower and equivocate, other brave Americans continue to raise the issue in the public sphere.... Read More »
Eleven Selected for B.N. Duke Scholarships
Duke Today, Thursday, June 21, 2018“As an alumnus of the B.N. Duke program, I can speak directly to its ability to foster a lifelong commitment to the Carolinas,” said Adam Hollowell, senior research associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke and the faculty director of the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship... Read More »
Some demonstrators arrested during final Poor People's Campaign rally
Spectrum News - Central NC, Tuesday, June 19, 2018"Ten years before Roosevelt, Huey Long's 1934 'Share Our Wealth' plan declared that the U.S. should use public works to ensure everyone is employed. And after Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr. demanded immediate employment for everyone in need of a job," said Duke University Professor William... Read More »
Opinion: Creating a humanitarian crisis -- while ignoring U.S. history
The Herald Sun, Tuesday, June 19, 2018In an effort to "send a message" to potential asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, the Trump administration and the Jeff Sessions-led Justice Department have created a humanitarian crisis on the border. In May, the administration began separating children from their parents at the... Read More »
Desemprego baixo nos EUA esconde aumento do número de trabalhadores que vivem em condições precárias
Notícias do Dia, Monday, June 18, 2018Os números do desemprego mostram que há 5 milhões de trabalhadores em tempo parcial que gostariam de estar ocupados em tempo integral. As estatísticas, porém, não captam os trabalhadores desalentados, que se sentem alijados do crescimento econômico e, sem qualificação para os dias atuais,... Read More »
Desemprego baixo nos EUA esconde aumento do número de trabalhadores que vivem em condições precárias
Epoca, Monday, June 18, 2018Os números do desemprego mostram que há 5 milhões de trabalhadores em tempo parcial que gostariam de estar ocupados em tempo integral. As estatísticas, porém, não captam os trabalhadores desalentados, que se sentem alijados do crescimento econômico e, sem qualificação para os dias atuais,... Read More »
A Revival of Black Business, and Pride, in Brooklyn
The New York Times, Sunday, June 17, 2018Economists have a less sunny view of the trend toward more black-owned businesses. Black workers have been harder hit by public-sector cutbacks, said Darrick Hamilton, a professor of economics and urban policy at the New School. “Add to that the biases against hiring blacks in the private sector,... Read More »