BlackEconomics.org® What is the PBC? Economist and 2018 Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus is an early theorizer about the political business cycle (PBC), which he concluded arises because “voters care about the economy and politicians care about power.”(1) The notion is that politicians will act to ensure favorable conditions (especially economic conditions) leading up to elections […]
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What Your Alder’s Favorite Rapper Might Tell You About Them
By Jeremy Mitchell Community Organizer in Southeast Wisconsin As Hip-Hop Week MKE returns, I rewatched what I think is one of the funnier municipal moments in recent Milwaukee history. The video is from a January 2018 City of Milwaukee Common Council Community and Economic Development Committee meeting that discussed the potential for the first Hip-Hop […]
Misinformation, Disinformation: A guide to sorting fiction from reality
Social media and deceptive actors are allowing falsehood to spread even faster than the truth, but there are ways to inoculate yourself from information disorder. Phoebe Petrovic Wisconsin Watch Wisconsin Watch is a nonprofit and nonpartisan newsroom. Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigative stories and Friday news roundup. A viral TikTok claimed Disney World sought […]
Kamala Harris Accepts the Democratic Nomination for Vice President
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz The Democratic National Convention came to town earlier this week and although it didn’t come in the conventional way, the Democratic National Convention Committee found a way to make it happen. On the third day of the convention, Sen. Kamala Harris stepped up to the microphone and accepted the Democratic party nomination […]
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Thank you, Kamala!
By Amelia Ashley-Ward Publisher of Sun Reporter We were saddened when United States Sen. Kamala Harris announced the end to her 2020 United States Presidential bid this week. When we see a brilliant female freedom for all fighter, who looks like us, we are hungry and excited for spirited competition. We believed like Harris, that […]
End of Kamala Harris’ White House Campaign Ignites Discussion on Treatment
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor On Dec. 3, Senator Kamala Harris of California suspended her campaign for the White House. Harris’ decision was announced by video after four straight weeks of negative media coverage regarding her campaign organization and strategy. Harris’s campaign started with a bang and a ton of media attention. She […]
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Everyone Must Condemn Trump’s Sly Encouragement of Lawless Violence
By Jesse Jackson Racism is not natural. Babies—black, brown, white—explore the world and each other with wonder, not hate. Racism has to be taught. It is learned behavior. To assume that a person is inherently superior or inferior to another based upon race is unnatural and ungodly. Racism is used for political manipulation and economic […]
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Selma, the Birthplace of Modern Democracy in America
By Jesse Jackson This past weekend, political leaders from across the country gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where peaceful demonstrators, attempting to cross the bridge, were violently driven back by Alabama State Troopers, Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies and a horse-mounted posse wielding billy clubs […]
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Trump’s Flailing Will Get More Desperate and More Dangerous
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Since the striking victories of Democrats up and down the ballot in 2018, President Donald Trump has been flailing more and more wildly. He’s setting new records for the length of the government shutdown, watched his defense secretary resign after suddenly announcing the withdrawal of troops from Syria, forced his […]
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Are the Walls Finally Closing in on Trump?
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young Despite vehement denials of no collusion and repeated assertions of fake news, 16 associates of Donald Trump’s political circle have now been exposed as having had some association with Russian operatives. It seems almost like a daily occurrence that some new revelation emerges that further implicates Trump […]
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