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Outgunned: Reducing Violence With Economic Opportunity
Editor’s note: Read part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the series. Chicago. New Orleans. Detroit. All of these cities are frequently cited as epicenters of gun violence, with stories about neighborhood shootings regularly appearing on our nightly news. But rarely will news coverage offer the full context for inner-city violence: In particular, these cities are among…
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50 Years After the March: Has Blacks' Income Inequality Improved?
Fifty years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Dedrick Muhammad, senior economic director of the NAACP, explores discrepancies in wages and income between African Americans and whites. In a piece for the Huffington Post, he says not much has changed. … There has been far less progress in bridging racial income…
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We Shall Not Be Moved on Economic Justice
(Special to The Root) — “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.” Those were the words of W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903, six years before he co-founded the NAACP to ensure the “political, educational, social and economic equality…
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The Economy Starts With You
Dedrick Muhammad, senior director of economic programs for the NAACP, says in his latest piece for Huffington Post Black Voices that while the economy can be a runaway topic, especially during an election season, focusing on your own finances is the best route to fiscal wellness. From working to pay off high-interest debts to building…
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Job Creation: Change Obama Needs To Believe In
The White House jobs summit may have provided some good photo-ops for the administration, but it must go beyond that and deliver jobs for the American people. With the unemployment rate still in double digits, it is time for government to do what government is meant to do: step in when private forces are inadequate…
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