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Still A Dream: Over 500 Years To Black Economic Equality
INTRODUCTION: Black Americans have endured the unendurable for too long. Sixty years after the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, African Americans are on a path where it will take 500 more years to reach economic equality. Our country has taken significant steps towards racial equity since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s.
What Chinatowns Can Teach Us About Community
Much like other communities, Asian Americans have a long history of developing spaces and institutions to advance themselves in a country that often gave them little support. The Chinatowns found across the country derive from this history. This May, Asian American History Month, it’s worth taking a look at what we can learn from them.
What Chinatowns Can Teach Us About Community
Chinatown, New York City (Shutterstock) As our country looks to “build back better,” Chinatowns show how to foster vibrant, welcoming communities of all kinds. By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Sally Sim | April 28, 2021 Much like other communities, Asian Americans have a long history of developing spaces and institutions to advance themselves in a country that often gave them little support. The Chinatowns found across the country derive from this history.
Racial Wealth Snapshot: Women, Men and the Racial Wealth Divide » NCRC
Intro Women have made great strides in the workplace, comprising nearly half of the workforce, and surpassing men in higher education achievement. Yet, women still make less income, have less wealth and face greater economic instability than their male counterparts. The level of economic instability faced by men and women is greatly influenced by racial economic inequality.
An Immigrant Nation Defined By Racial Inequality
Immigrants come into the country through various pathways: visitation, permanent residency, employment, education, as a refugee, or undocumented. Certain nationalities have a history of obtaining a specific visa; for example in the fiscal year 2016, India was the leading country in obtaining H-1B visas, and nationals from Mexico led in obtaining H-2B visas.
Racial Wealth Snapshot: Asian Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide » NCRC
Introduction Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and are predicted to be the nation’s largest immigrant group in 50 years.[1] Asian American is a racial category that includes Americans who are from or whose relatives are from a diverse group of countries: China, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and many others.
Bailed-Out CEOs Should Have Skin in the Game to Keep Them Honest
Congress should require that executives at aided companies who earn more than $1 million defer half of their pay for 10 years. (It can take that long to uncover financial misdeeds.) If the company is found to have engaged in misconduct — whether it’s from misusing aid, money laundering, abusing consumers, price gouging, lying to shareholders, violating product safety standards or some other infraction — any fine the company pays would come directly from the withheld CEO salaries.
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