On Our Radar

Racial inequality wasn’t an accident. It was an ugly political choice.

Have you noticed that social-impact organizations working with black people often describe them in language that is so offensive that we wouldn’t dare use it to their faces?

Voting is already hard. Housing insecurity and the coronavirus pandemic are only going to make it worse.

Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, and represents how much farther into the current calendar year the average Black woman must work to make the same amount that her white male counterpart made the previous year.

The gender wealth gap has been growing during the coronavirus pandemic, Sallie Krawcheck, co-founder and CEO of financial service company Ellevest, said at an Axios event on Wednesday.

As experts fear a nationwide eviction crisis, a Times business reporter discusses the industry’s long-term problems and a nightmare in the making.

Millennials—the generational cohort born between 1981 and 1996—are now the largest generation in the U.S. labor force. Yet they have also earned the dubious distinction of experiencing two once-in-a-lifetime economic catastrophes before the oldest have even turned 40 years old. Consequently, the coronavirus pandemic is stretching Millennial parents to the breaking point and may set maternal labor force participation back decades.*

In America, how long you live depends on the color of your skin.

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has announced Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate, making the California senator the first Black and South Asian American woman chosen for national office by a major political party.

Despite some recent good news about dwindling household debt, the financial health of U.S. consumers is rapidly deteriorating — and families with children are faring the worst.

The pandemic is making the maternal health care crisis worse. It doesn’t have to be this way.

More than 650 urban planning professionals signed a letter connecting design decisions to criminal justice outcomes.

In the nation’s capital, a Black woman makes 51 cents for every dollar a White man makes.

“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.