This story about Tony and Emmy winner Cicely Tyson mentions Dr. Maya Rockeymoore’s role as the chair of the Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts, which presented Ms. Tyson with a lifetime achievement award: “We have supported arts education for 20 years through the Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts, during a time […]
Youth Today op-ed: Advocating for Social Security Is Advocating for Youth
In this op-ed, CGPS President and CEO Maya Rockeymoore discusses how the debate on Social Security reform focuses on seniors and ignores children. The national focus on Social Security’s benefits for seniors obscures its role as one of the largest antipoverty programs for children. Without Social Security, the child poverty rate would skyrocket to 43 […]
Black Star News op-ed: We Need a Concrete Jobs Agenda to Reduce Chronic Black Poverty
In this op-ed, Senior Research Fellow Algernon Austin explains that “the best anti-poverty program is a good job.” African Americans have been suffering from high levels of joblessness for two generations. Since the 1960s, the black-to-white unemployment-rate ratio has been about 2-to-1. … African Americans want to work. Only persons actively looking for work are counted […]
Black Enterprise — #BlackBizMatters: Spending $1.2 Trillion Black Buying Power with Black Businesses
Lack of funding is a major roadblock to creating and growing businesses for black entrepreneurs. This story focuses on a website and an app, Purchaseblack.com, that is trying to direct dollars to these entrepreneurs. Our recent report, The Color of Entrepreneurship: Why the Racial Gap Among Firms Costs the U.S. Billions, offers the background for […]
Los Angeles Times: On Social Security’s 81st anniversary, a reminder that it’s also a lifeline for children
As Michael Hiltzik puts it, “it’s important to observe that the program doesn’t pit generations against each other so much as bind them together.” In 2014, 6.4 million children, or 8.7% of all children, benefited from Social Security, up from 5.4 million (7.3%) in 2003. Social Security keeps many of those children out of poverty—the child […]
The Fiscal Times: How Children Got Lost in the Debate Over Social Security Reform
This story covers our recent report in the context of the debate on Social Security’s solvency: “For the last decade we have been having this debate about the future of Social Security, and in all of these discussions not a single portion of it has really been dedicated to the number of children who actually rely […]
Forbes.com — Surprise: At 81, Social Security Is A Growing Anti-Poverty Program For Kids
This story covering our recent report highlights Social Security’s unheralded role as protection against poverty for children: By the Center’s calculations, 25.5% of children who benefit from Social Security live in households whose income falls below the poverty line. Yet without the Social Security cash, an extraordinary 43% of them would be poor. Put another way, in 2014 Social […]
The Hill: Social Security saves children too
In this op-ed on The Hill, Tanisa Smith-Symes describes how she Social Security survivor benefits helped her when she was a child: I began receiving Social Security survivor benefits after my father died when I was 3 years old. I didn’t know at the time but those benefits would become my only source of stability during my […]
Washington Post: Closed Social Security offices, furloughed staff under GOP cuts, agency warns
Dr. Maya Rockeymoore explained why an appropriations bill in the House of Representatives that was going to cut the Social Security Administration’s budget was unadvisable: “Social Security has been the most successful antipoverty program in U.S. history, helping men and women, children, adults and seniors from all walks of life,” said Maya Rockeymoore, president and CEO […]
DeltaSky Magazine: 5 Minutes with Kathryn Finney
DigitalUndivided founder Kathryn Finney cited our report, “The Color of Entrepreneurship,” in her interview with DeltaSky magazine: There was also another report, released this year by the Center for Global Policy Solutions. That report found that . . . not investing in small businesses started by people of color is costing our economy upwards of $300 […]
