Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address
After an intense and shameful week of poorly dealing with ex-USDA worker Shirley Sherrod and issues of race, the country is left trying to make sense of where we are and why issues of race seem so hard and intractable.  There have been many editorials and stories – many of them very thoughtful. ...
July 28th, 2010 | Economics, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Done right, immigration reform will boost the U.S. economy

Done right, immigration reform will boost the U.S. economy
By Victor Corral, Program Manager,  Insight Center for Community Economic Development (photo credit: celikins) The U.S. economy needs immigrants. According to the Center for American Progress, if we passed immigration reform that included legalization, there would be an estimated $1.5 trillion boost...
May 11th, 2010 | Economics, Immigration | Read More

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart
Outside of Bank of America’s former headquarters in San Francisco, there is a sculpture that locals have dubbed a “banker’s heart.” The NAACP has come under fire for its “partnership” with cold-hearted Wells Fargo, which is being sued by states and municipalities for discriminatory and predatory...
May 4th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

Black leaders must seize the moment

Black leaders must seize the moment
The National Action Network held its 12th annual convention last week in New York City. I attended the first day, but missed the black leadership forum, “Measuring the Movement.” Broadcast live on TV One, the forum was “designed to determine and commit to significant and measurable goals that...
April 20th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Africa’s urban transformation: Signs of opportunity and hope

Africa’s urban transformation: Signs of opportunity and hope
The people of Africa living south of the Sahara dessert (in the region commonly designated Sub-Saharan Africa [SSA], also a casual synonym for Black Africa) are in the midst of an urbanization revolution. People are moving into cities on the continent faster than anywhere else on earth. And within a...
February 23rd, 2010 | Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

Advocates struggle to measure stimulus relief for minority businesses

Advocates struggle to measure stimulus relief for minority businesses
By Krissah Thompson, Washington Post Staff Writer As Congress looks to pass a second stimulus, groups that represent small, minority and women-owned businesses are eager to assess how much their companies have benefited from the $787 billion infusion of cash pushed through by the Obama administration...
January 18th, 2010 | Economics, Racial Equity | Read More

Countdown to 2050: Equity in America

Countdown to 2050: Equity in America
This post is written by PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell. Ms. Blackwell is a co-author of the forthcoming Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future. One of the first visible signs of the current recession was the sub-prime mortgage crisis, which caused a wave of foreclosures among...
January 7th, 2010 | Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

Stimulus funds are being spent unevenly

Stimulus funds are being spent unevenly
john a. powell, director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity says the recovery money from the stimulus is being spent unevenly across races. Professor powell also talks about housing policies, the extreme racial aspect of society’s structural organization and Detroit and...
November 12th, 2009 | Economics, Racial Equity | Read More

Global food crisis needs a new model

Global food crisis needs a new model
The global food crisis is also a crisis of food governance. With an estimated increase of 105 million hungry people in 2009, there are now 1.02 billion malnourished people in the world, meaning that almost one sixth of all humanity is suffering from hunger (FAO 2009). But the problem is not that we don’t...
October 28th, 2009 | Economics, Racial Equity | Read More

ARRA reaching few minority businesses

ARRA reaching few minority businesses
American Recovery Reinvestment Act Logo While federal government American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) funds are targeted to promote financial recovery for all Americans, an analysis by the Kirwan Institute shows that a comparatively low percentage of ARRA contracts and revenues are reaching...
October 26th, 2009 | Economics, Racial Equity | Read More

Emphasis ‘Reinvestment’ in the ARRA

Emphasis ‘Reinvestment’ in the ARRA
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – known as the stimulus – is one of the largest public investments of our time, pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into creating and saving jobs, repairing and building new infrastructure, and modernizing the health care system. But is it working?...
October 15th, 2009 | Economics, Racial Equity, Talk About Race | Read More

Will economic recovery reach black neighborhoods?

Will economic recovery reach black neighborhoods?
Originally published on The Grio. Some Americans have begun telling pollsters they’re beginning to wonder when the recovery will start. African Americans are wondering if the recovery will make it to our neighborhood. The notion of fixing the economy for everyone is an important goal, but without...
July 14th, 2009 | Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More