While the protests and riots in Baltimore in recent days were critically triggered by yet another death of a young black man interacting with the police, there are of course many other forces at work. Mike Fletcher, a journalist at the Washington Post, has made important contributions to the poverty/economics beat in recent years. But … Continue reading #Baltimore and Race-based Residential #Segregation | Jared Bernstein | #Economy on Blog#42→
The Trans-Pacific Partnernship Agreement, the fancy name for the current trade agreement in front of Congress, has been negotiated by the Obama administration and a group of countries for the past couple of years. Every president for some decades now has negotiated his version of such a pact and has been lobbied by this or … Continue reading The TPP: what everyone should know | Economics on Blog#42→
I came across an excellent mash-up of segments from Martin Luther King’s speeches on poverty and the end of an interview of James Baldwin in PBS’ “The Negro and The American Promise.” These two men expressed, in ten minutes and fifty three seconds, far more than Thomas Piketty did in a seven hundred-page book.
March 24, 2015 by Katie Rose Quandt This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. As Americans honor those who fought for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago, it’s easy to forget that 5.9 million citizens — 2.2 million of them African-Americans — remain disenfranchised today. One out of every 13 African-Americans is prohibited from casting … Continue reading 1 in 13 African-American Adults Prohibited From Voting in the United States→
An old friend left me a question on my post of Nick Kristof’s column on Facebook: The question is asked by someone whom I know is well-meaning, thoughtful and truly wants to see the dialog on race get ahead, rather than continue at the standstill it is at now.
Our system of politics has been breaking for some time. I’ve made numerous public comments on various aspects of our degrading democracy over the last few years. What I’ve only recently begun to articulate, however, is that the problems we’ve all been focused on in connection to events pertaining to the right, also exist on the left, perhaps to a lesser … Continue reading Beyond salvation? Democratic party politics on Blog#42→
Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy DEREK THOMPSON AND JORDAN WEISSMANN AUG 22 2012 In 2009, Ford brought its new supermini, the Fiesta, over from Europe in a brave attempt to attract the attention of young Americans. It passed out 100 of the cars to influential bloggers … Continue reading The Cheapest Generation | The Atlantic→
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