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Black Unemployment Dips Below 10 Percent

May 22, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent May 22, 2015   Valerie Wilson, the director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) speaks jobs and the economy in the Black community during an event at the EPI. (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Unemployment, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Economic Policy Institute EPI, Josh Bivens, MAY 22 2015, Unemployment, Valerie Wilson, VOL. 25 NO. 19, White Unemployment

Black Women Face Pay Gap

May 1, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent May 1, 2015   Nearly 60 percent of Black women worked in either the service industry, sales or office jobs. (Stock Photo)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar White men made in 2013, according to a […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for American Progress CAP, Economic Policy Institute EPI, Gender Gap, MAY 1 2015, Pay Gap, VOL. 25 NO. 16

Economic Recovery Eludes Black Workers

April 17, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent April 17, 2015   Valerie Wilson (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — The slow-moving, uneven economic recovery continues to elude Black workers and some economists predict that even with a falling unemployment rate, at the end of 2015, Blacks will still be further […]

Popular Interests In This Article: APRIL 17 2015, Black Unemployment, Economic Policy Institute EPI, Economic Recovery, Ethnicity and the Economy, Program on Race, Scott Walker, VOL. 25 NO. 14

Income Inequality Rises In all 50 States

February 6, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent February 6, 2016   Lakia Wilson, a guidance counselor from Detroit, Mich., said that even though you hear on television that the economy is coming back, it hasn’t come back for everyone. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Income inequality is rising and it affects workers […]

Popular Interests In This Article: AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Institute EPI, FEBRUARY 6 2015, Income Inequality, Keystone Research Center KRC, Lakia Wilson, Mark Price, Richard Trumka, VOL. 25 NO. 4

New Approach for Affirmative Action

January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015     Continued from last week…   In Cashin’s article on affirmative action published in the PRRAC journal, she concedes that, “Fewer African Americans may enter elite institutions under an affirmative action system based on structural disadvantage rather than under race-based affirmative action.” However, she argued that the social costs of racial-conscious […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Affirmative Action, Economic Policy Institute EPI, JANUARY 23 2015, Lia Epperson, NAACP, Richard Rothstein, VOL. 25 NO. 3, Washington College of Law

Scholar Says Race-Neutral Approach Needed for Affirmative Action

January 16, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent January 16, 2015   Sheryll Cashin, a professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. advocates for “place-based” affirmative action policies in education. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — In the wake of unrelenting law suits seeking to abolish affirmative action coupled with nearly half […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Affirmative Action, Economic Policy Institute EPI, JANUARY 16 2015, Race-Neutral, Sheryll Cashin, VOL. 25 NO. 2



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