Race

“Build back” means restoring the government and business investments in the productive capabilities of the U.S. labor force that created a growing middle class in the three decades after World War II

Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.

Mainstream economics ignores historical and structural factors by design

To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed

To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed

Over and over again, US government policies designed to transfer and create wealth and economic opportunity were restricted to whites by design.

Researchers reveal the enemies to stability and prosperity that threaten us all.

Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.

In this introduction to our project, “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.

Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.

Economist Darrick Hamilton explains that pursuit of profit, not hatred of black people, is the real root of discrimination.

Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics

Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration

This paper records the path by which African Americans were transformed from enslaved persons in the American economy to partial participants in the progress of the economy.

Economist Marie Mora discusses the deep economic crisis that has afflicted Puerto Rico for years