(Milwaukee, WI) We are deeply disappointed by the legislature’s decision to pass a 2023- 25 state budget that doesn’t include state funding for the proven, effective Child Care Counts program. This decision will have profound and lasting consequences for Milwaukee’s youngest children, working families, and workforce. Early childhood education (ECE) matters for the issues that […]
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Wisconsin Budget 2023: Tableau in Politique
By LaKeshia N. Myers Like sands in the hourglass, the last few days in the state capitol have been intense. With the state budget passing along party lines, the bill headed to the governor’s desk. Legislators from both sides waited with baited breath, to see what Governor Evers would do with the budget. One he […]
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor These days, I can barely catch my breath. One far reaching legislative decision or policy proposal after another has been introduced/passed. Whether at the state or federal level, many of these initiatives have far reaching consequences, with harmful implications. One outsized note is the recent decisions by the […]
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Milwaukee Brewers are Playing Wining Baseball!
By Charles Collier The Milwaukee Brewers are playing winning baseball under the tutelage of Craig Counsell. Craig has been the Brewer’s manager since 2015. He is a hometown kid, humble and is a great manager. The Brewers are two games behind the Cincinnati Reds in the National League Central Division, as of July 6, 2023. […]
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Addressing Racist Media Stereotypes
BlackEconomics.org® Introduction Do emotional movie scenes motivate tears? Has the slow but methodical increase in mass shootings of Black Americans over the last few years numbed you to recent such occurrences? Are these murders no longer repugnant? Without any intent to incriminate, while your and your partner’s decision to abort undoubtedly concerned your personal futures, […]
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Separate But Equal 2.0: Wisconsin’s Budget & Why the Supreme Court Got it Wrong
We have been transported back in time. Before our very eyes, we are seeing policies peeled away that were meant to give us equal footing and finally actualize the “American Dream.” Last week, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that gutted Affirmative Action in higher education admissions decisions. This means taking race into […]
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Law of the Land
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall “The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket” Browne-Marshall: With truncated briefing, no argument, little or no public explanation, no vote tally to guide the parties before the Court or to inform lawyers and lower Courts and future cases and decisions that often come down in the middle of the night. It’s hard to […]
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The “Colorblind Constitution” Ruse
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Be Careful What You Ask For Reeling from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, on the use of affirmative action in college admission decisions, I have thought hard about which angle I wanted to discuss this landmark ruling. As scholars debate whether the 1978 Regents of the University of […]
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Communication
BlackEconomics.org® In an April 2023 analysis brief, “Economics Before Education?,” BlackEconomics.org established that “knowledge” is the most important “thing” in the universe. This commentary is to suggest that “communication” must rank very high on the list of important things. Obviously, it is critical that we communicate important knowledge so that wo/man can continue existence on […]
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Rejoice!!!
BlackEconomics.org® Yesterday’s Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) Affirmative Action (AA) decision should mark a day of great rejoicing in Black America’s future! Behind a veil of ignorance and in perpetual fear of loss of life, Black America has suffered through the most horrendous hellicost of any people in known human history. Our American experience […]
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