From access to investing to the harsh discipline black women face, the Supreme Court decisions on fair housing and gay marriage, to access to healthy food, the minimum wage, and using public resources to generate income for all Americans, there is no shortage of topics that touch on racial wealth inequality. Members of the Experts […]
Salon.com Story on the Gender and Racial Wealth Gap
Mariko Chang, a member of the Experts of Color Network, released a study on wealth disparities by gender, race, age, education, marital and parental status. The study was featured in a Salon.com story by Sean McElwee. Adding a racial lens to the data (viewed in the chart above) also produces stark divergences: the median black […]
Salon.com: Guaranteed Government Jobs — The Economic Plan That Could Save America
In June, we released A Policy Agenda to Close the Racial Wealth Gap, a collection of 37 policies in seven categories selected by the members of the Experts of Color Network. One of them, guaranteed government jobs, caught the eye of Sean McElwee, a Demos researcher and columnist for Salon.com, who mentioned it in […]
Washington Post: What age is best to start drawing Social Security benefits? Truth is, it depends.
If there is one piece of advice that financial advisers seem nearly unanimous on, it’s Social Security and when you should take it. If you can, wait till you’re 70. You could double your monthly check. Rodney Brooks, retirement and personal finance columnist for The Washington Post, hashes out the various factors affecting this decision. For […]
Time: America’s Broken Ladder
Rana Foroohar, assistant managing editor and columnist at TIME, cited the Beyond Broke report in an article about income inequality in America and the need to address racial and economic issues together rather than separately. One thing is clear after the tragic death of Freddie Gray, the young African-American man who was fatally injured while […]
Maya Rockeymoore on The Diane Rehm Show
Maya Rockeymoore discussed the latest news in the fight against obesity. While the statistics show that obesity rates are plateauting for the general population, there are still significant challenges when it comes to people of color and low income populations. And by the year 2043, they’ll be the majority of the nation. So we need to […]
NewsOne Now: AG Eric Holder Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into The Ferguson Police
On NewsOne Now with Roland Martin, Maya Rockeymoore discussed the Department of Justice’s wide-ranging investigation into the practices of the St. Louis suburb’s police department. Your browser does not support iframes.
Maya Rockeymoore featured on TIME’s Five Best Ideas of the Day
A recent blog, It’s Time for an Inclusion Revolution, published in the Huffington Post by Maya Rockeymoore was featured on TIME magazine’s “Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 30.” I maintain that it’s time for disruptive leaders everywhere to launch an “Inclusion Revolution.” We cannot plod through our days focused on our micro pursuits […]
Obama’s Plan to Aid Black Men and Boys Will Be a Boon to Other Groups, Too
Maya Rockeymoore and john a. powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California at Berkeley, recently co-wrote an op-ed published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the broader impact of a new White House Initiative “My Brother’s Keeper” designed to improve educational opportunities for Black youths. […]
On the Legacy of Maya Angelou
Maya Rockeymoore recently wrote in BK Nation about the passing of Dr. Maya Angelou, her namesake and constant source of inspiration: I grew up with my mother telling me often that I was named after Dr. Maya Angelou, the great writer and poet laureate who died today at the age of 86. As the story […]
