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C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., Executive Director at the Women of Color Policy Research Network at NYU, discusses how women of color, including immigrants, are often cheated when it comes to wealth management and asset building.

The Honorable Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC) discusses the impacts of the recession for women of color at the Economic Security for Women.

Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) discusses how women, particularly women of color, were especially hard hit by the great recession and the need for economic development and asset building for women at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Doua Thor, Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Research Action Center, discusses the role of the asset building and economic development for women of color refugees at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever discusses the wealth of women as a crucial issue in U.S. economic recovery at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Don't Sucker Punch the American People

Published in Social Insurance
Tuesday, February 23 2010

The national mood is sour and it is not because Americans think that Social Security is driving the country into bankruptcy -- as many fiscal hawks in Congress and their parrots in the media would have you believe.

Maya Rockeymoore interviews Dr. William Spriggs, former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor and current Chief Economist at the AFL-CIO, discusses creating policies that promote economic development, create jobs and wealth and increase income security among all workers.

Maya Rockeymoore interviews Tiffany Moore of Venable about the economic policies of free trade and global economic development.

Maya Rockeymoore interviews Avis Jones, Research Director at the National Council of Negro Women, to discuss the status of black women and girls in communities faced with economic and racial disparities, and the role of social insurance reforms in helping to close the racial and gender gaps.

Maya Rockeymoore interviews Jim Carr of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition about wealth, jobs and how Wall Street and the financial services sector undermined America.