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Tuesday’s stock market record proves the definitive triumph of capital over labor in the era of COVID-19.

It’s playing out differently this time, according to a new study by economists Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, and Michèle Tertilt. They find that this recession is hitting women harder. Between February and April 2020, male unemployment increased 9.9%; female unemployment increased 12.8%. The pandemic has ravaged in-person service jobs — at restaurants, hotels, pilates studios, retail outlets and so on — which are disproportionately done by women. Men are more likely to be able to work remotely, and male-dominated construction and manufacturing, while down, have also proven to be relatively pandemic-proof.

Below-average evictions during the pandemic suggest a housing crisis might look different than a projected “tsunami.”

“To raise the cost of refinancing and put a real barrier between American consumers and these lower payments is absurd at every level,” Broeksmit tells NPR. “And I just can’t understand, particularly as President Trump seeks reelection, why in the world they would do this.”

Some Black employees at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his $80 billion philanthropic company, say his efforts are stymied by blind spots around race and the desire to appear bipartisan.

Richard Rothstein, author of ‘The Color of Law,’ says it was government policy to keep African Americans out of white, working-class neighborhoods.

The agency is ending the 2020 census early. Tribal communities will be skipped over, leaving them poorer and politically weakened.

A century later, it’s past time to recognize the women of color who were sidelined in the fight for gender and racial equality.

A historic low-income-voter turnout in 2020 would mean a victory for Democrats.

The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people?

A new generation of activists is trying to figure out where to concentrate its efforts. Residential desegregation is the final frontier.

Banco Nacion is the first bank in the world to adopt a quota for transgender people, the country’s banking union says.

Refusing to account for her “top cop” record risks squandering the energy and enthusiasm of the BLM criminal justice reform movement.

Scholars and policymakers have proposed ways to fix the inequities between whites and people of color, including changes to Social Security and building wealth from birth.

This year, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on Aug. 13, the symbolic date for how far Black women have to work into the new year to earn the same pay White men earned the previous year.