Real talk, element 1: in December 2014, the unemployment rate for African-Americans was a little over 10%; that’s twice the rate of whites in America. That gap has been fairly consistent for a little over 40 years. Real talk, element 2: in… Continue Reading
Here’s a new paper from the Brookings Institution looking at inequality — what the 20th percentile of earners in that city made in 2012 vs. what the 95th percentile made, and then calculating a ratio — in the 50 largest United… Continue Reading
This Atlanta situation — now thawing out — was undeniably a bit of a mess, but it could have been even worse if not for a Marietta woman named Michelle Sollicito. Working with another resident, Jelena Crawford, they created a… Continue Reading