The Future of Reparations and Economic Equality
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad says reparations and change are possible but will take a “large, long-term commitment from the federal government.”
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad says reparations and change are possible but will take a “large, long-term commitment from the federal government.”
Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
60 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the racial wealth divide persists.
Sixty years without substantially narrowing the Black-white wealth divide is a policy failure. But just as federal policy helped create the racial wealth gap, it can also help close it.
Congress should establish a national commission to examine the legacy of slavery and propose reparations funded by breaking up concentrated wealth in the United States.
While our federal government backtracks, state and local lawmakers are increasingly taking action to repair racial divides through policies designed to address racial inequality.
One state’s “Baby Bonds” program should be a model for the whole country.
Black students have had to take out larger loans and faced greater difficulty paying them back than other borrowers.
Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.
New York’s essential workers have been excluded from relief and benefits. The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition is fighting to change that.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, New York has an opportunity to transform its care economy by investing in workers.