Displaying items by tag: economic issues

Representative Melvin Watt of North Carolina explains why social security is important for African Americans and why public policy and programs that address economic disparity and income security are vital to economic health.

Maya Rockeymoore conducts interviews with Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh and Stefanie Brown about Social Security and economic disparity issues. Other topics include life expectancy and social insurance benefits.

Maya Rockeymoore interviews Doua Thor and discusses Social Security as well as the future economic security of the Asian American population.

Pivot Point: Social Security and Latinos

Published in Social Insurance
Wednesday, August 25 2010

Maya Rockeymoore interviews Hispanic Americans regarding the future of Social Security and addresses why only one third of Latino workers have access to an employer-sponsored Social Insurance program.

Question and answers session at the Economic Security for Women Conference. Topics include economic development, women of color and long-term wealth development.

Representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY) discusses the importance of women-owned businesses as an asset building strategy at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Sarah Echohawk Vermillion, VP of First Nations Development Institute, discusses sexism in tribal economies and the need for economic development and asset and wealth building for women in American Indian communities at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Bea Stotzer, Board President at New Economics for Women, discusses first generation women of color immigrants and their need for economic development and asset building at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Sherry Salway Black of the National Congress of American Indians discusses American Indian wealth and how to manage it through asset building strategies at the Economic Security for Women Conference.