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Boston Offers Critical Lending to Minority-Owned Small Businesses
March 14, 2017By Oscar Perry Abello Eight dollars. That’s the median net worth for native-born black households in the Boston metropolitan area. Median net worth for white households in Boston is $247,500. The racial wealth gap is at the root of many...
Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care.
March 9, 2017By Stephen Pimpare In response to a question about his party’s plan to increase the cost of health insurance, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) suggested that people should “invest in their own health care” instead of “getting that new...
Black Urban Farmer Talks Planting in DC Food Desert
March 8, 2017by Christen Hill If you want to try your hand at growing your own food, there are multiple organizations in D.C. that encourage it. Xavier Brown is a native Washingtonian and DC Urban Farmer who runs Soilful City, a community gardening organization...
Minorities, Latino immigrants face the greatest risk of workplace injuries
March 2, 2017By Emily Gersema Latino immigrants and African-American men work in jobs with the highest risk of injury, according to a new study of workplace injuries and disability. “We found that their risk was higher even when we accounted for education...
The Green Movement Is Talking About Racism? It’s About Time
March 1, 2017By: Brentin Mock The same people and organizations we admire for protecting our wild places also have a history of being apathetic—or plain antagonistic—toward issues of race and social justice Facing a new White House administration led by...
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukemia
February 28, 2017By Mike Gaworecki, With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, it's also pushing ever closer into areas where...
Livestream: A Conversation with Cedric Richmond
February 28, 2017Live stream today: Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 10:30 am ET - 12:00 pm ET Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a conversation with Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, or CBC, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) as he...
How Voter ID Laws Discriminate
February 23, 2017by Vann R. Newkirk II A new comprehensive study finds evidence that strict voting laws do suppress the ballot along racial lines. For all the fervor of the current debate over voter ID laws, there’s a startling lack of good data on their...
Losing a Grocery Store Changes a Neighborhood
February 22, 2017By Emily Payne, Alexina Cather, Charles Platkin, and Emma Cosgrove Victor Papa was born in 1945 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. “Never left and never will,” said the 71-year-old president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, a...
Racial gaps in wages, wealth, and more: a quick recap
February 21, 2017by Elise Gould Recently, I had the opportunity to present some key facts on 1A, a new NPR news program, about the state of black America. Drawing heavily upon research by my colleague Valerie Wilson and her co-author William Rodgers III, I reported...