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Hidden Rules of Race are Embedded in the New Tax Law
The Roosevelt Institute, Thursday, May 24, 2018The federal tax code is one of the most powerful tools of economic policymaking, housing critical rules that govern our economy. As such, it is also home to a set of hidden racial rules that, through intention or neglect, provide opportunities to some communities and create barriers for others.... Read More »
Cities Need to Look Back in Order to Move Forward
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Wednesday, May 23, 2018At the same time, another study just out—What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap by researchers at Duke University’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity—shows that blacks, while constituting just under 13 percent of the nation’s population, own less than 3 percent of the nation... Read More »
Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Wednesday, May 23, 2018Over time, with that operating system running in the background, the cultural acceptance of market encroachments into leisure and other domains would likely ebb as more people came to appreciate alternatives to the commodified life. And this could be accelerated with publicly provisioned options... Read More »
Democrats’ Next Big Thing: Government-Guaranteed Jobs
The New York Times, Tuesday, May 22, 2018A handful of liberal researchers have revived and promoted such a plan in recent years, including Mark Paul, William A. Darity Jr. of Duke University and Darrick Hamilton of the New School. Last year, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank stacked with veterans of the... Read More »
Checking in on Trump's promise that tax cut would bring jobs
MSNBC, Tuesday, May 22, 2018Last December, Trump signed the GOP tax bill into law, touting the great volume of jobs it would bring back to America. Less than a month later, 800 workers learned they would lose their jobs as Harley-Davidson decided to close their Kansas City plant. Darrick Hamilton, Associate Director... Read More »
How Right-to-Work Laws Make Inequality Worse
The Street, Monday, May 21, 2018"Some huge amount of the productivity gains over the last 30 years in the United States have gone to executives and stockholders, and not to workers," said Professor Robert Korstad with Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. "That's because workers in major industries where automation... Read More »
Meghan Markle Is 'Changing Discussions About What It Means to Be Biracial in America'
People, Monday, May 21, 2018“The U.K. has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations in the world,” notes Dr. Sarah E. Gaither, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University who also runs the Duke Identity and Diversity Lab. “To the biracial community, she’s really serving as a symbol of this... Read More »
A Federal College Loan Program Is Exacerbating The Racial Wealth Gap
Pacific Standard, Monday, May 21, 2018As William Darity, a professor at Duke University, told me last month, "[t]hese inequalities are baked into the system through the process of transfers that take place across generations." Read the full article here.
Stephanie Kelton Has The Biggest Idea In Washington
HuffPost, Sunday, May 20, 2018In February [Kelton] connected Sanders with Darrick Hamilton and Sandy Darity, two economists who specialize in the economics of racial inequality. Darity, who teaches at Duke in North Carolina, and Hamilton, who works at the New School in New York, had been putting together a proposal for one... Read More »
Worthy reads on equitable growth
Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Friday, May 18, 2018Noah Smith sends us to hard but very important truths about why African Americans are so poor relative to their fellow citizens: William Darity plus a team of six more scholars write in “What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap” that “a narrative that places theonus of... Read More »