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“If the world won’t help us survive, we can create our very own economy.”
“It’s just like really worsening an already bad situation in the Black community,” said Belinda Archibong, professor of economics at Barnard College. She said Black health and Black wealth are intertwined. And the only way to change the outlook for Black-owned businesses where COVID-19 has hit hard is to directly allocate funds to them.
“Folks are actually terrified of what a full count of Latinos can mean. But we’re not going anywhere. This is our country. We are American as everyone else. This fight doesn’t keep me up at night, it wakes me up every morning,” she said. “I want to make sure that I can take that political potential and turn it into political will.”
In addition to thousands of unregistered listings, The Times’ analysis found that more than 400 hosts listed two or more entire L.A. homes or apartments as short-term rentals on Airbnb in June. Doing so raises questions about whether they are violating the rule that limits each host to renting out their own primary residence.
Black-owned small businesses are closing at nearly twice the rate of small businesses overall, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found in a study published Tuesday. Data show a 41% drop in active Black-owned small businesses between February and April, compared with a 22% decline overall. Meanwhile, the number of active Latin business owners fell 32%, while Asian business owners declined 26% and white business owners, 17%.
Banking Dive: As Congress scrambles to extend PPP, loan data casts light on inequality Read More »
But history has a way of confounding those who think they can control it.
The New York Times: Opinion | Trump and His Allies Think They Know Who Counts Read More »
Virginia’s Supreme Court has granted a request from Gov. Ralph Northam to temporarily stop evictions proceedings, extending protections for tenants who can’t pay their rent through the beginning of September.
NPR: Virginia Supreme Court Grants Temporary Moratorium on Evictions Read More »
The Household Pulse Survey is designed to collect real-time data on how people’s lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to inform federal and state response and recovery planning.
The United States Census Bureau: Second Phase of Household Pulse Survey Read More »
Resistance to eliminating it has long been connected to the idea of white supremacy.
The New York Times: Opinion | How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long? Read More »
An extra $600 a week smoothed out sharp differences in benefits among states, and among the people who lived in them.
The experience economy is mixing with gig work, an incomprehensible financial system, and unpayable college debt, creating a new set of impossible-to-achieve goals for a new generation.
Fast Company: The new American Dream is just as unattainable as the old one Read More »
trump’s denials of his racism will never stop. He will continue to claim that he loves people of color, the very people his policies harm. He will continue to call himself “not racist,” and turn the descriptive term racist back on anyone who has the temerity to call out his own prejudice. Trump clearly hopes that racist ideas—paired with policies designed to suppress the vote—will lead to his reelection. But now that Trump has pushed a critical mass of Americans to a point where they can no longer explain away the nation’s sins, the question is what those Americans will do about it.
The Atlantic: Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? Read More »
Society’s perception of child care being of lesser quality to education has rarely been so pronounced.
The New York Times: Why Are Child Care Programs Open When Schools Are Not? Read More »
The coronavirus pandemic threatens America with a new wave of homelessness due to a cratering economy, expiring unemployment stimulus payments and vanishing renter protections.
Axios: 23 million Americans face eviction Read More »
The 1873 murders of dozens of former slaves in a flyspeck Louisiana town still reverberate.
The New York Times: Opinion | The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists Read More »