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‘I Dream Detroit’: Women of Color Lead the Charge for the City’s Future
As the city of Detroit looks to make a comeback, its resurgence and economic development continue to get national attention, but there is a large group of people who get left out of the narrative when we hear stories about the city bouncing back: women of color. A new report by the Black Worker Initiative…
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Black Families Are 228 Years Away From Accumulating the Same Amount of Wealth as White Families
There’s still a long way to go to close the racial wealth gap—some 228 years, to be precise, according to a study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development and Institute for Policy Studies (pdf). According to the report, if the average black family’s wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past…