More assets under management by low-income families is good for those families, it’s good for their communities, it’s good for the economy, it’s good for our democracy. – Ida Rademacher, The Aspen Institute Ida Rademacher, Executive Director of the Initiative on Financial Security at The Aspen Institute, speaks on the panel entitled, “What’s the Code […]
Government creates the rules of the game for wealth accumulation and distribution. The robber barons were heavily subsidized; railroads, oil, almost any industry. The development of the Internet was subsidized. We need to repurpose government so that once again it is investing in people and not just in the elites. — john a. powell, UC Berkeley […]
We need to recognize the active, deliberate human actions that brought about the racial wealth gap, and also the power of human agency that can be harnessed to eliminate the gap. The conversations about inequality on the right and the left need to recognize the deep structures of racial inequality. — Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community […]
The question is, Why race and why now? There are organizations and individuals who think that not focusing on and acknowledging race or ethnicity is the polite thing to do. I call that “the invisible race card.” They think class and gender explain all differences in our society. But, while class and gender are important, […]