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Overlooking the Racial Wealth Divide

February 21, 2013 by Tim Sullivan 2 Comments

President Obama celebrated the inauguration of his second term on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this January. Just a few weeks later, he delivered his first State of the Union address in the middle of Black History Month. Despite the symbolic and substantive reasons to confront race in the State of the Union Address, the […]

Filed Under: Race and Class Tagged With: asset-building, housing bubble, racial wealth divide, recession

Upsides of sky-high youth unemployment

May 1, 2012 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

Posting Class Action internships gives me a window into the massive under-use of young adults’ energy in this lousy economy. Even for unpaid internships, we get dozens of bright, motivated students, and even college graduates. And whenever we can afford to offer internships with small stipends, the applications come in by the hundreds. These applicants […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in the Economy, First Generation College Students Tagged With: first generation college students, recession, unemployment

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