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Articles by David Harshbarger
Separate and Unequal: Racial and Ethnic Segregation and the Case for School Funding Reparations in New Jersey
Reinforced by racial segregation and income inequality, the U.S. public schooling system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world – and New Jersey is no exception.
Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity
About the Authors Homeownership is often viewed as the entree to the American dream and the gateway to intergenerational wealth.
Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity
Homeownership is often viewed as the entree to the American dream and the gateway to intergenerational wealth.
Renewing US rural prosperity: Federal policy in the Biden administration
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #ReimagineRural Amid 21st-century shifts in the global and U.S. economy, demographics, and climate, federal leadership must modernize to improve its coherence, effectiveness, and ability to support rural communities. The Biden administration’s public commitment to “rebuild rural” represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine policy to maximize rural prosperity.
Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy
In The New York Times’ 1619 Project, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones asked a prescient question about the role of Black Americans in the progress of our democracy: “What if America understood, finally, in this 400th year, that we have never been the problem but the solution?” Last night in Georgia, that question may have been answered.
How We Rise: How social networks impact economic mobility in Racine, San Francisco, and Washington, DC
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #HowWeRise Across the U.S., economic mobility is frequently linked with geography. Some places afford poor children the opportunity to do better economically than their parents did, and other places do not. Social networks, providing access to support, information, power, and resources, are a critical and often neglected element of opportunity structures.
This Juneteenth, we should uplift America’s Black businesses
As Black Americans have progressed from being owned to becoming owners, the state of Black businesses can offer insights into the advancement of race relations and democracy in America. And while the nation commemorates the end of slavery this Juneteenth, Black-owned businesses are still being systematically denied financial investments in ways that throttle wealth creation for Black entrepreneurs and national productivity as a whole.
To add value to Black communities, we must defund the police and prison systems
The Minneapolis Police Department’s murder of George Floyd epitomizes what Black taxpayers have never truly received: quality law enforcement. Black people are overrepresented in stops, arrests, convictions, and deaths at the hands of police. The failure to prosecute murderous police typifies a bad overall track record with solving violent crimes: Approximately 38% of murders, 66% of rapes, 70% of robberies, and 47% of aggravated assaults go uncleared every year.
Mapping racial inequity amid COVID-19 underscores policy discriminations against Black Americans
A spate of recent news accounts reveals what many experts have feared: Black communities in the U.S. are experiencing some of the highest fatality rates from COVID-19. But without an understanding of the policy contexts that have shaped conditions in Black-majority neighborhoods, one may assume the rapid spread of the coronavirus there is caused by the individual behaviors of residents.
Coronavirus economic relief cannot neglect Black-owned business
As the country tries to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, one phrase has been bandied about with great regularity: We’re all in this together. It suggests there is a renewed recognition that if our neighbors are sick, then we are vulnerable. The collective efforts of citizens and noncitizens, Democrats and Republicans, and the people of different ethnic groups to flatten the disease’s curve has illuminated how interconnected and interdependent diverse people in different locales are to one another.
Brookings Metro’s COVID-19 analysis
The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings is closely tracking the rapid developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We plan to publish frequent analysis on how the coronavirus crisis is impacting local communities and the nation’s economy and what interventions should be considered. View our publications on the topic below.
Five-star reviews, one-star profits: The devaluation of businesses in Black communities
“Our ice is just as cold.” This expression, heard in corners of Black neighborhoods to articulate the choice between a Black-owned business and a white one, reminds customers that racism distorts our sense of quality. In a more perfect union, profits earned from a business would reflect the effort and labor put into it.
Why the race for Black voters is the most important Democratic primary of them all
The Democratic primary for president has a new frontrunner. At last glance, polls in Iowa saw Mayor Pete Buttigieg surging ahead of previous favorites Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Observers seem focused on this Iowa bounce—understandable, given that’s where the first primary votes will be cast—but many are tracking the state as if contestants carry their result into the next.
America’s formerly redlined neighborhoods have changed, and so must solutions to rectify them
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” penned poet and activist Audre Lorde. Pulled from a 1984 essay, the quote summarizes her larger argument that mainstream academic frameworks are incapable of permitting the disruption of their own status quo. “They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change,” wrote Lorde. Over the last few months, several Democratic presidential hopefuls—namely Sen.
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The racial wealth gap has been growing over the past five decades and has reached the point where white households hold more than ten times the wealth of black households. The homeownership gap between black and white families is 30 percent. This continued disparity in wealth is of growing concern, and notably growing as black households continue to slip further behind in critical measures for wealth building and economic mobility.
The rise of black-majority cities
Contents How did the new black-majority cities come about? Black-majority cities have emerged in different ways across U.S. regions Suburbanization also drove black-majority cities’ emergence Black-majority cities are here to stay American cities in which blacks constitute a majority of the population—what we call “black-majority cities”—are on the rise.
The devaluation of assets in Black neighborhoods
Homeownership lies at the heart of the American Dream, representing success, opportunity, and wealth. However, for many of its citizens, America deferred that dream. For much of the 20th century, the devaluing of Black lives led to segregation and racist federal housing policy through redlining that shut out chances for Black people to purchase homes and build wealth, making it more difficult to start and invest in businesses and afford college tuition.
The devaluation of assets in Black neighborhoods
Homeownership lies at the heart of the American Dream, representing success, opportunity, and wealth. However, for many of its citizens, America deferred that dream. For much of the 20th century, the devaluing of Black lives led to segregation and racist federal housing policy through redlining that shut out chances for Black people to purchase homes and build wealth, making it more difficult to start and invest in businesses and afford college tuition.
Homeownership while black: Examining the devaluation of assets in black neighborhoods
According to new research from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program and Gallup, in the average U.S. metropolitan area, homes in majority-black neighborhoods are valued at roughly half the homes in neighborhoods with no black residents, amounting to $156 billion in cumulative losses, lower levels of wealth accumulation among black homeowners, and reduced upward economic mobility for black children.
Behavioral Insights and Family Planning
This piece is the seventh in a series of blog posts on Isabel Sawhill’s new book Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage.
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