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Bridging the class divide

Meizhu Lui

Meizhu Lui

About Meizhu Lui

Meizhu Lui is the former Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative of the Insight Center. She co-authored "The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide." She serves on the Board of the Highlander Education and Research Center.

Health Inequities: Black Lives Matter!

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Zip code is the best predictor of how healthy a person is and will be. Why is there a zip line to health? Your zip code is determined by income and wealth – and the racialized public policies and practices over generations that herded people of color into neighborhoods that were underserved by design, and […]

It’s Not Butter: The Other Tax Spread

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Congress and the White House are wrangling over the future of the Bush tax cuts, which expire this year.  Much has been written about how the 2001 and 2003 cuts widened the gap between the very wealthiest 2% of Americans and the middle and working classes. But far too little notice has been paid to […]