Socioeconomically speaking, black America is in a rut -- a very long-lasting rut. At 13.6%, black unemployment remains nearly double that of their white counterparts and higher than it was in 2008. Despite national trends which bally-hooed an inexplicable drop in January from a 2011 average of 15.8%, the economic...
0 Comments | Posted August 4, 2011 | g:i A
Watching the debt insanity these past few weeks, I've had one question ringing over and over again in my head: What do we do? Not what kind of short-term lobbying and marches and calls will save our economy. The question for me has been about the longer term: What do...
0 Comments | Posted April 1, 2010 | g:i A
The census is more than a constitutional mandate to snapshot the population and ensure proper allocation of federal funds. It is also a telling--and at times controversial--window into how the United States deals with the most deeply personal of all issues: identity. How people within the American "melting pot" identify...
0 Comments | Posted August 6, 2009 | g:i A
CNN's poll released yesterday shows a striking generational divide over support of Obama's health care plan, with the reform being significantly more popular among young people than among adults over the age of 50. Nevertheless, every day I try new responses to those that ignorantly assume I don't care about...
11 Comments | Posted March 6, 2012 | g:i A