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How Obamacare May Hinder Medicaid
On Thursday, President Obama won a large political victory when his controversial Obamacare was supported by the Supreme Court. But the bill includes tweaks to the country’s medicaid system, which primarily serves people of color, writes ColorLines‘ Imara Jones. As a result, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s longterm effectiveness is in doubt, and…
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Paul Ryan Is the Worst Choice for People of Color
Imara Jones, writing at ColorLines, argues that Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick’s ideas aren’t new. In fact, he says, they’re “ripped right out of America’s past” and reflect the latest in the “black and brown blame game.” Here again, Ryan’s plan clues us in. In it, he argues that a “culture of dependency” fueled by…
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Wall Street's Scary African Landgrab
ColorLines‘ Imara Jones says that financiers around the world are trying to get their hands on the continent, and predicts that the world’s poorest regions stand to be harmed if they’re successful. Wall Street is at again. The nation’s financial sector is on a crusade to dominate an irreplaceable African resource that the world…
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Romney's Budget Idea: Double Down on Equality
The GOP nominee’s proposal would be twice as bad as Paul Ryan’s for people of color and for the country, Imara Jones writes at Colorlines. We all know that Paul Ryan’s budget would be a disaster for people of color. The bad news is that Mitt Romney’s plan is even worse, twice as bad in fact. …
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Don't Be Fooled, Romney's Still Terrifying
Wednesday’s debate wasn’t the best for President Obama. As his opponent Mitt Romney seemed to charge over the both the president and the night’s moderator, Jim Lehrer, some viewers felt that the Republican presidential hopeful came across strong and insightful. Colorlines editor Imara Jones, however, points out the clear differences between Romney’s fundamental platforms and…
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The Fiscal Cliff Is Really About Race
As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner insists a fiscal-cliff agreement is close, while House Speaker John Boehner says it’s not, Colorlines‘ Imara Jones says this political deadline is about something else entirely. What’s really at stake, argues Jones, is redistribution of wealth from whites to other Americans through taxes. The truth of the matter is that…
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Economic Injustice and 'Reverse Subsidies'
As the deadline for the fiscal cliff quickly approaches, Colorlines editor Imara Jones says that it is not America’s biggest financial worry. Instead, he suggests that people look at “reverse subsidy” laws, which allow the country’s wealthiest to benefit from the finances of the 99 percent. This “reverse subsidy”—which reached a crescendo under George W.…
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US Economic Inequity Stems From White Supremacy
As Americans await a fiscal-cliff solution that doesn’t appear to be on the horizon before 2013, Colorlines‘ Imara Jones writes that in order to tackle the worst wealth inequity in decades, Americans must call out and defeat systemic white supremacy. Our collective denial over the fundamental injustice at the heart of our economic system is…
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We're Tumbling Over an Inequality Cliff
Colorlines‘ Imara Jones argues that we’ve wasted precious political and economic energy over the past eight weeks to produce a policy that does too little, does it too late and doesn’t fix underlying fiscal or economic issues. By shifting the definition of who is rich, the “fiscal cliff” deal passed by the Congress this week…
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10 Slavery Facts You Won't Find in 'Django'
In the last few weeks, Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western slave film, Django Unchained, has been dissected in almost every way possible. But Colorlines editor Imara Jones adds a number of tidbits that the average film buff might not know about the economic ramifications of that movie’s slavery backdrop. Though sadistic and macabre, the plain truth…
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