Posts Tagged ‘Jobs’
CSI BOARD MEMBER ROGER CLAY ON “SPOTLIGHT ON POVERTY”
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
CSI Board Member Roger Clay will being appearing on a panel moderated by Tavis Smiley tonight from 6:30-9:00 PM Eastern on a live broadcast on C-SPAN to discuss solutions for restoring America’s prosperity.
The panel,which also includes Michael Moore, Suze Orman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, and others, will react to a new Indiana University paper that examines the “new poor” and how the face of poverty in America has changed.
The conversation can also be viewed on C-SPAN and will be rebroadcast in three segments on the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS beginning Monday, January 16 through Wednesday, January 18.
For more information, please go to http://www.tavistalks.com/remakingamerica/?page_id=9It
We hope you will be able to watch.
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CSI DIRECTOR MAYA WILEY IN WASHINGTON POST
Friday, October 21st, 2011(originally published in The Washington Post on 10/20/2011)
What Obama could learn from Clinton and Johnson on racial inequities
By Maya Wiley
I remember when Sen. Barack Obama confronted race in America in an eloquent and powerful 2008 speech, promising to work for a “more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.” He pledged to take on “the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through.” Sadly, Obama is falling short of the president who accomplished the most for communities of color since Lincoln: white Southerner Lyndon Johnson. He is also falling short of another white, Southern president who pursued a national dialogue on race: Bill Clinton.
History shows that when presidents confront racial inequity, America sees vast improvements. President Johnson pushed for passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black voter registration rates in …
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VOTE FOR CSI
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011CSI Researcher Anthony Giancatarino is in the running for PolicyLink’s Favorite Equity Map contest.
The ten maps with the most votes will be featured in the Equity Map Gallery in Detroit at Equity Summit 2011, and the winning mapmaker will receive a free registration (a $275 value) to the Summit.
Vote for CSI maps here.
Our 3 maps:
Bus lines do not serve most communities with significant elderly populations. For example tracts located in Vestavia Hills, west of Fairfield, north of Center Point, and in Forestdale remain un-served by public transportation. Within Birmingham, many elderly communities of color also do not have adequate bus service to access vital needs, such as hospital. This map shows that investments in public transit are vital not only for access to jobs, but also as a means for older residents who need transit to see medical assistance.
Source: US Census, …
MAYA WILEY ON THE RACIAL OPPORTUNITY GAP
Friday, July 29th, 2011Originally published in What’s Possible: The Tides Blog
The recession that was supposed to have ended in 2009 has become a depression for many communities of color. The Pew Research Center’s astounding report “Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics” is the most recent to draw this conclusion. Consider it’s findings. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households. From 2005 to 2009, inflation-adjusted median wealth fell by 66% among Hispanic households and 53% among black households, compared with just 16% among white households. This is the biggest racial wealth divide this country has seen in the past 25 years. This wasn’t the first news story to highlight the problem. Just a few weeks ago, Jesse Washington’s Associated Press article on the shrinking Black middle class was carried in every major newspaper in the country. …
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NEW CSI REPORT SHOWS THAT STATES CONTINUE TO FEEL THE RECESSION’S TOLL AND PEOPLE OF COLOR FEEL THE BRUNT OF THE BURDEN
Thursday, April 14th, 2011“The recession is over!” Or so economists and politicians like to claim. That statement is true if we define the term “recession” by the growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But when we define recession by its impact on the economic and social wellbeing of states, a very different story emerges. And while families across the nation continue to take a recessionary pounding, families of color are feeling even greater pain. The recession is not over – it is just hitting its stride.
The so-called “end of the recession” has dominated the conversation, providing the impetus and justifications for the latest round of cuts in the 2011 federal budget and proposed cuts in state budgets across the country even as people continue to suffer. Many of these proposed cuts are to the very programs that have helped people weather the storm: education, healthcare, food programs, and unemployment benefits.
How we …
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