BlackEconomics.org® On April 5, 2024, BlackEconomics.org released a commentary entitled “Questions about a Path to Economic Equality,” which featured nine interrogatives. The promised responses are provided below. There appears to be no major violation of logic or pragmatism to accept equivalent Black and Non-Black American economic statistics as a reasonable metric for defining economic equality. […]
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EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
Questions about a Path to Economic Equality
BlackEconomics.org® Blacks Americans have been on a long, arduous, and multitrack path to equality in the US since the end of the Civil War and adoption of the XIII Amendment to the US Constitution on December 18, 1865. One-hundred and fifty-nine years later, Black Americans have rightly or wrongly positioned “economic equality” at or near […]
The State of the Economy for Black Americans
By Karen Stokes Since before the pandemic, Black Americans have seen an improvement in a host of financial indicators including the unemployment rate, evictions, wages, and wealth. The Black-white wealth gap has narrowed, and rates of business ownership have increased. “When the Administration started, during a global pandemic that had a disproportionate impact on the […]
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Missing the Point
BlackEconomics.org® The relatively few existing Black American economists focus largely on inequality (stratification) issues. We realize that in-equality in employment and income are not our primary concerns even as we consider Black America’s ~$1.8 trillion in spending power for 2023.(1) Rather, wealth inequality is the most salient metric by which we assess progress: Our wealth […]
Greater Milwaukee Foundation Launches “A Milwaukee for All”
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz “I can hear the grinding, the crunch of bone and hope, city as machine chomps greedily eating everything unhinged, unattached…” Those words were written by Dasha Kelly Hamilton, Wisconsin’s poet laurate, and recited during the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s kick off event for its new series, “A Milwaukee for All” on Friday, June […]
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Our Path Forward to Advance Racial Equity
By Brian Lamb Brian Lamb is Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at JPMorgan Chase & Co. SPONSORED CONTENT The past year has been one of the most tumultuous chapters in recent history for Black Americans, with numerous reminders that systemic racism brings devastating consequences for individuals, families and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing […]