Malany Dela Cruz presents "Asian American Women and Wealth," discussing the wealth gap between Asian American and Pacific Islander men, women, and families.

Melany Dela Cruz
Director of the Asian Pacific American Community Development Data Center at UCLA

Meishu Lui of the Insight Center for Community Development discusses the importance of improving women of color's wealth and strategies for asset building and management at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

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.

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.

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 Rockeymore and Dr. Heidi Hartman discuss how Obama’s Social Security reform policy may affect women and children receiving Social Security benefits and why now is not a good time to change public policy in regards to women of color and those struggling in poverty.