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According to the Brookings Institute, the median wealth of a white household is $188,200, which is 7.8 times more than the average Black household at $24,100. By Stacy M. Brown,…
According to the Brookings Institute, the median wealth of a white household is $188,200, which is 7.8 times more than the average Black household at $24,100. By Stacy M. Brown,…
By Julianne Malveaux — The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into law on June 25, 2022, was a win for the Biden-Harris Administration. The legislation was genuinely bipartisan, more so…
Good union jobs built America’s blue-collar black middle class. But the percentage of black workers in manufacturing has been halved since the 1970s, yielding poverty and precarity. We can’t achieve…
Black Americans are almost twice as likely to be denied a mortgage than their white counterparts. By Nathalie Jimenez, BBC News — Katrinka Cox lives the American Dream: a green…
By Julianne Malveaux — There have been at least 214 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, the most recent being the killings during a July 4…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — On Monday, March 28, President Joe Biden released his 2023 budget proposal that includes significant tax hikes on the wealthy. The $5.8 trillion…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — It’s official, America has entered the Great Resignation. In August of 2021, 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs, and the quit rate, measured…
The world’s largest online retailer is no longer union-free in the U.S., following a remarkable election victory by an independent union. By Dave Jamieson, HuffPost — Amazon warehouse workers on…
Thousands of workers beat the odds and voted to become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the US. By Caitlin Harrington, WIRED — A SCRAPPY GROUP of Amazon workers in…
“This is big,” said one economist on the reported tax plan that another called a “landmark proposal” to force the nation’s wealthiest individuals to pay their fair share. By Jon…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — There’s nostalgia at the thought of paying four dollars for a gallon of gas. In fact, there’s an almost deep longing in paying five dollars…
By Julianne Malveaux — March 15 was National Pay Equity Day. It’s the day when women have to work into a new year to earn the same amount that men…