Archive for the ‘Employment’ Category

Why bother with homeownership?

Janis Bowdler, Director of the Wealth-Building Policy Project, National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Most Americans know all too well the consequences of the housing bubble of the last decade: unprecedented rates of foreclosure, high-profile bank failures and acquisitions, depressed property values, and...

June 28th, 2011 | Employment, Housing, Politics, Racial Equity | Read More

One nation under a groove

I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally. Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants. The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around...

October 6th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Employment, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Politics, Racial Equity, Talk About Race | Read More

Relentless pioneer cemetery evokes Mexican migrant workers roots in Arizona

The labor of thousands of peasants brought from Mexico into Arizona in 1917 contributed to the farming revolution that placed a new state on the path of progress and the workers on a historical dimension. Avondale. Arizona April 13, 2010. In the midst of the solitude of the Goodyear Farms Historic...

April 15th, 2010 | Employment, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Understanding the unconscious side of racism

The New York Times reported on December 1 that even educated blacks may suffer racial discrimination in the job market. Although the article focuses on the job market, it just as easily could have been about the credit market, the housing market or any of the various other markets and institutions...

December 2nd, 2009 | Employment, Racial Equity | Read More