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Being In The Minority Can Cost You And Your Company
By Shankar Vedantam The racial wage gap in the United States — the gap in salary between whites and blacks with similar levels of education and experience — is shaped by geography, according to new social science research. The larger … Continue reading
Justice Department Sues Florida Over Disabled Kids in Nursing Homes
By Mother Jones The Justice Department Monday sued the state of Florida over its longstanding practice of housing medically fragile and disabled children in geriatric nursing homes, alleging that the state is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The … Continue reading
The Seeds of Rebellion Are Taking Root, and Protests Against Injustices Are Blooming Across the Country
By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers Stephen Shapiro describes Occupy as a “dandelion moment” in which the movement successfully dispersed seeds to float and root, thereby growing into a bigger movement. We would not limit the seeds to the US … Continue reading
Zimmerman verdict: 86 percent of African Americans disapprove
By Jon Cohen African Americans have a mostly shared and sharply negative reaction to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the not-guilty verdict in the resulting trial, while whites are far more divided, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. … Continue reading
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Black Health Rx: Finding A Cure For America’s Health Disparities
By Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson For her 40th birthday in October 2011, Khadijah Tribble had one wish: to jump out of an airplane. “I had been planning the event for four months,” Tribble recalled. The jump never happened. But it wasn’t because … Continue reading
In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters
By David Leonhardt Stacey Calvin spends almost as much time commuting to her job — on a bus, two trains and another bus — as she does working part-time at a day care center. She knows exactly where to board … Continue reading
8 Stark Realities of America’s Dysfunctional New Economy
By Steven Rosenfeld There’s a new normal in the American economy for vast slices of society and it’s discouragingly tough, despite all the cheerleading from the White House and economists that the country is in a slow but steady recovery. … Continue reading
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The Privilege of Whiteness
By Paul Waldman As a biracial child who spent part of his youth abroad, Barack Obama learned the feeling of otherness and became attuned to how he was perceived by those around him. As a politician, he knew well that many … Continue reading →