What will be the Toll on our Children?
By Priya Murthy, Policy Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), The last ten years have been needlessly difficult for South Asians living in New York. South Asians, and in particular, Sikhs and Muslims, have faced ten years of profiling, ten years of negative encounters with law enforcement and immigration officers. These encounters have [...]
A blog by the Opportunity Agenda A recent forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, provided an in-depth discussion into the level of concern in the United States about poverty and opportunity, particularly concerning children.Spotlight on Poverty also looked at whether or not these issues will be factors in the upcoming presidential election. [...]
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President Obama recently unveiled his jobs proposal before Congress. Known as the American Jobs Act, the proposal would cut payroll taxes paid by both American businesses and American workers, invest in education and infrastructure to create jobs and prevent public sector layoffs, and offer tax credits to employers for hiring long-term unemployed workers, among [...]
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President Barack Obama must sell a complex idea to a Congress that prides itself on simplicity. This Congress, namely the House Republicans, were elected on the premise that massive budget cuts are essential for this country’s economic survival. This line of thinking argues that these kind of program cuts will certainly cause hardship [...]
Continue reading …Janis Bowdler, Director of the Wealth-Building Policy Project, National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Most Americans know all too well the consequences of the housing bubble of the last decade: unprecedented rates of foreclosure, high-profile bank failures and acquisitions, depressed property values, and the Great Recession. The impact on families of color has been particularly acute. [...]
Continue reading …Relentless pioneer cemetery evokes Mexican migrant workers roots in Arizona
April 15, 2010 Comments OffThe labor of thousands of peasants brought from Mexico into Arizona in 1917 contributed to the farming revolution that placed a new state on the path of progress and the workers on a historical dimension. Avondale. Arizona April 13, 2010. In the midst of the solitude of the Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery, there are countless [...]
Continue reading …The New York Times reported on December 1 that even educated blacks may suffer racial discrimination in the job market. Although the article focuses on the job market, it just as easily could have been about the credit market, the housing market or any of the various other markets and institutions in our society. When [...]
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