Joseph Dean is NCRC’s Racial Economic Junior Research Specialist. He started off as a research intern here at NCRC in the spring 2023 before being brought on full time. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Howard University. His research interests include environmental economics, international trade, and racial and class inequality. In his free […]
In December of last year, Senator Bernie Sanders called for a national moratorium on the construction of data centers “that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.” Sanders’ stand follows bipartisan backlash resisting proposals to construct data centers in communities across the country. Recent reporting from Data Center Watch shows an estimated
Coinciding with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released its annual State of the Dream report.
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Join Joseph Dean, NCRC’s Racial Economic Equity Junior Research Specialist, at the Penn BLSA 38th Annual Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander Commemorative Conference. Hosted at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on February 21, 2026, this conference will feature a full day of insightful discussions and valuable networking opportunities. The event honors the legacy of
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2025 was a year of slowing job gains, a bifurcated consumer economy and trade war uncertainties. These negative trends will likely continue and intensify in 2026. The last jobs report for the year produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics only further confirms the anemic nature of the jobs market. The economy added a modest
In a New Year, Old Uncertainties Remain: January 2026’s Race, Jobs and the Economy Recap Read More »
The end of the longest government shutdown in American history means the resumption of the long-awaited monthly economic data releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). However, the November BLS jobs report and a number of other noteworthy economic data releases have been delayed for weeks. What we know about the state of the
No Christmas Miracle This Year: December 2025 Race, Jobs and Economy Update Read More »
November is the second month that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has failed to produce a jobs report due to the recent government shutdown. What we do know about the economy comes from private sources, and they paint a mixed to negative picture. Revelio Labs found that the labor market lost 9,000 jobs last month
With the federal government shutdown that began on October 1st ongoing, economic data releases from a plethora of federal agencies have ground to a halt. This also includes the jobs report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the lack of official government data, several private sources that collect labor market data have produced
A flaw in the structure of SNAP benefits has serious unintended consequences for recipients working to rise up the economic ladder.
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Stateline, October 3, 2025, Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report Black unemployment, which has spiked from 4.8% in April 2023 to 7.5% in August, has likely increased again, said Joseph Dean, who monitors it for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which encourages more investment in underserved communities. “If there were a jobs report,
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