By Tammy Baldwin When I travel across our state and across Milwaukee, I hear from working families that they need a fighter on their side. The big corporate special interests and the super-wealthy have it easy making their voices heard, but our workers, our neighbors, and our families need someone speaking up for them. Every […]
“Baby Blues” or Something More
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Next week is Black Maternal Health Week. It is a lead up to International Maternal Mental Health Month, which is observed during the month of May. And if I am honest, as a young mother I don’t know if I ever thought about either. My only child is […]
Legislature has Opportunity for Massive Impact on Economy and Families
By Ellen M. Gilligan and Vincent Lyles With a single investment, Wisconsin leaders have an opportunity to fortify the statewide workforce over the next two years while easing unprecedented strain on a system that parents everywhere rely on to support their families and their futures. Early childhood education is the workforce behind our workforce. It […]
Economics Before Education?
BlackEconomics.org® At the outset of certain lectures, we have enquired of the audience: “What is the most important ‘thing’ in the universe?” While we have received a multiplicity of answers, we always steer the audience back to what we view as the correct answer: “Knowledge!” Why knowledge? Because it is fundamental. You may have all […]
Tennessee Is Our New Old Normal
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Race. Power. Money. Writer and philosopher George Santayana said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, it seems like Tennessee’s Republican state legislators are either too indolent, oblivious, or willfully resistant to understanding the state’s mistakes of old. Some of those errors include […]
Dear Republicans, Your Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
By LaKeshia N. Myers There are some days when I want to just, “throw it all away” and start over—the world that is. Because its too much; and after this week, its safe to say Republicans have lost their damned minds. And collectively (and ideologically) the deep end is where they reside. If you don’t […]
Self-Enslavement: The Psychoeconomics of Sports Games
BlackEconomics.org® Prof. John Nash, Jr. shared the Sveriges Riksbank (Nobel) Prize for Economics in 1994 for his work on the theory of strategic games. You may have seen the related 2001 biopic entitled, A Beautiful Mind. Economists use Prof. Nash’s theory to analyze a wide range of economic situations. The closest most persons come to […]
The April 4 Election for Wisconsin Supreme Court Represents a Clear Choice
Vote For Judge Janet Protasiewicz By Milwaukee Courier Staff This is an election that has been nationally-watched, and drawn record spending. It’s an election that has already brought out hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to vote early. And with the court split 4-3 in favor of so-called “conservative” justices, it is an election that will […]
Why do we Need to Vote
African Americans and women have always fought to vote. There’s been a long history of preventing people of color from voting. African Americans knew that the inability to vote resulted in economic, political, and social harm to themselves, their families, and their communities. Originally under the Constitution, only white male citizens over the age of […]
Medicare Advantage Works for African American Seniors. Now is the Time to Protect It.
By Betty Speed Health care access continues to be an important issue across Wisconsin’s Black communities. As the cost of care continues to rise, it has become increasingly important that we have options that allow us to access quality and affordable health care. That is why I am a supporter of Medicare Advantage, a program […]
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