Despite this increasingly sophisticated regulatory architecture, the research concludes that structural progress remains ...

This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog. “It’s time we address the structural inequalities in our economy that the pandemic has laid bare,” President-elect Joe Biden said last week, as he ...

During ESSENCE Fest 2024 at the Global Black Economic Forum, Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), and Ashleigh Gardere, Executive Vice President of ...

On April 16, 2021, the New York Times ran a front-page story entitled, “Economic Pace Signals a Boom on the Horizon.” With a self-confident chortle celebrating the likely containment of the Covid-19 ...

This inequality, the researchers write, "create [s] relational patterns that effectively socialize and dictate how individuals see the world and their place in it. Inequality is considered structural ...

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Historical and generational trauma affect Black and other marginalized communities, and ongoing inequality is making the coronavirus pandemic worse among those groups. Friends, I don’t need to tell ...

The coronavirus pandemic has had both economic and health care-related effects on the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) used U.S. Census Data ...

Children's views of inequality may be influenced by how its causes are explained to them, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. The work offers insights into the factors that affect ...

School districts across the country have found themselves engulfed in controversy this summer about “critical race theory.” The criticism has grown from concerns about an obscure legal idea into a ...

Over his long career as a teacher, principal, and now superintendent of schools in Hamden, Gary Highsmith has seen time and time again little kids starting kindergarten without knowing the difference ...

"It's time we address the structural inequalities in our economy that the pandemic has laid bare," President-elect Joe Biden said this week, as he introduced his economic team. It's a good team.