Gentrification Isn’t Helping Urban Economics
Remember how the creative class of writers, artists, urban cheesemongers, professional tricyclists, novelty button manufacturers, food truckers, and artisan mustache-growers was supposed to supplant...
View ArticleStudy: Inmate Families Suffer Grave Economic Hardships
A survey of families that have a family member in jail or prison has found that nearly two-thirds struggle to meet their basic needs, including 50 percent that are unable to afford sufficient food and...
View ArticleHow ‘the G Word’ is Translated in Harlem
Once upon a time in the nation’s socioeconomic matrix, Black activists once took to the ramparts challenging the advance of urban renewal, or as they called it “Negro removal.” Nowadays the issue is...
View ArticleWorking While Black: Demographics and Destiny
The Black and Brown revolution is coming. People of color will be a majority of the American working class by 2032, according to a new study released by the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy...
View ArticleA Movement to Put Black Banks in the Black
It started with an emotional cry from rapper Killer Mike in the wake of the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile: “We need one million people in Atlanta to take $100 out of...
View ArticleBlack Americans Saw Only Slight Increases in Equality in Last Year, Says Report
Blacks are doing slightly better in the categories of economics, health and education compared to Whites, according to new figures released Tuesday by the National Urban League. Challenges still exist...
View ArticleFight for 15: Target to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an hour by 2020
On Monday, big-box retailer Target announced it would raise its minimum wage from $10 an hour to $11 at all of its U.S. stores. In April 2015, Target raised its minimum pay rate to $9 an hour, a move...
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