Tag: Equality
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Disproportionately Impacted: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap through Student Loan Cancellation, Payment Reforms, and Investment in College Affordability
Today in 2023, the student debt crisis is particularly dire for African-Americans borrowers. Black degree-seekers are more likely to take out student loans to pay for higher education than their white counterparts and carry the largest average student loan debt of all racial demographics in the nation. Additionally, workforce inequities leave college-educated black workers with…
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The Investment in Four-Year Colleges Between Black and White Borrowers
The growing disparities cannot be understood without also recognizing structural racism. At the historical moment when people of color were finally gaining access to college, public support for higher education declined, raising cost and short changing the new students. How this happened is a question of scholarly debate. Some argue that states could no longer…
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Urban Renewal: Gentrification and Health Equity
Up to now, research has focused on the effects of urban renewal programs and their impacts on health. While some of this research point to potential negative health effects due to gentrification, evidence that addresses the complexity associated with this relation is much needed. This blog seeks to better understand, when, why and how health…
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Homelessness and Black History: Poverty and Income
The hardships of poverty and the lack of a robust safety net makes it extremely likely that a person experiencing poverty will be unable to afford necessary expenses like food, health care, and housing, making it a key predictor for homelessness. Therefore, African Americans overrepresentation among people living in poverty directly leads to their overrepresentation…
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The Transformation of Economic Thinking to Achieve Social Justice
Economic policy has not really addressed the pressing challenges we face today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, increased inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. What is the relationship between human rights and inequalities in income and wealth? The human rights framework offers an approach that stand in marked contrasts to neoclassical economic theory. This…
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Health Inequities and Their Causes
There is ample evidence that social factors, including education, employment, income level, gender and ethnicity have a marked influence on how healthy a person is. In all countries, whether low, middle or high income, there are wide disparities in the health status of different social groups. The lower an individual’s socio-economic position is, their risk…
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Women of Ethnicity Obtaining Managerial Roles
In U.S. organizations, men take leadership or management ppositions more than women, especially women of ethnicity, because female employees are believed to have less experience and knowledge than men. The problem is that, having limited opportunities for promotion, women of ethnicity face certain obstacles when they try to obtain managerial roles. In this study, the…
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The Vision of a Well-Being Economy
To solve the social, economioc, and environmental challenges we face today, we need to rethink the status quo. Governments and other institutions around the world need to embrace new ways of thinking and surely engage in widespread systems innovations to make real progress towards a healthier, more prosperous world. Yet most continue to to frame…
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HBCUs: What Students of the World Should Know
What do the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and current U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris have in common? For one, they both graduated from HBCUs, which gave many influential African-Americans their start. As an international student from Africa, Asia, Australia or any of the Caribbean countries, you may be wondering if there’s a place…
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Corporate Advocacy of Social Issues Driving Employee Engagement
Deciding when and how to engage on social issues can be a minefield for corporations, but when a corporation has decided to communicate on a contentious issue, it’s critical to make sure employees respond positively to the strategy. Done right, these communications can pay significant dividends for employee engagement. Note: Employees, especially through…