Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the responsibility of the organization as well, to examine the intersection of race and policy not just because we are an organization deeply committed to the public good but also because we are an organization based in washington dc, the nations capital. As much as washington is a city of politics it is also a city of great diversity, of the roughly 700,000 residents the call the city home, one need only wa
The g20 meeting to take place in argentina and he said this. Quote, maybe i wont have the meeting. Maybe i wont even have the meeting. Were going to see. He did not like the aggression that he saw in the black sea over the weekend. The president is again questioning the agencys high confidence assessment of the crown prince ordered khashoggis murder telling the Washington Post maybe he did or maybe he didnt. He denies it. That audio intelligence of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, have you heard that tape . No, i havent listened to it. And i guess i should ask you, why do you think i should . What do you think ill learn from it . You are the National Security adviser. You might have access to that sort of intelligence. How many in this room speak arabic . Im trying to make the point that everybody that says listen to the tape, unless you speak arabic, what will you get from it . It is time to send saudi arabia a message, both on its violation of human rights and the incredible humanitar
In the U.S., 30% to 40% of food is wasted. The EPA estimates that the yearly amount of carbon emissions generated by producing this wasted food is equal to that of 42 coal-fired power plants. And that doesn't even account for the methane emissions from the food as it rots in landfills. Households account for almost half of this wasted food.
ongoing bias. this is cohosted by the brookings institution and fair housing alliance. good afternoon. good afternoon. i am andre come the senior fellow at the workings institution and lack assets initiative. it is my pleasure to welcome you here examining racial bias in home appraisal. a screening of our america lowball. we will explore prevalent aspects of housing discrimination that have been mainly overlooked until this moment which we find ourselves. in 2018, when brookings published at the devaluation of assets and black neighborhoods authored by jonathan rockwell, principal economist. david harshbarger, a brookings and me. we knew we made a significant contribution to policy research. we showed that homes in black mamba majority areas across the country were priced at 23% or $48,000 lower than their white counterparts. that 23% amounts to $156 billion in lost equity. to that point in time, housing devaluation was mostly an issue that black homeowners talked abo
value. it is going back decades to the home value that african-americans have tried to achieve so that they can pass on to other generations so it is it is hurt generation after generation that african-american neighborhoods have been undervalued, it means that african-americans can pass on less to their kids. absolutely. the $156 billion that my colleagues jonathan rockwell at gallup and david harshberger is really the amount of money that we use to uplift our social status so it s the money that should go to starting a business, going to college, improving your home or even moving to a better neighborhood. right. that s what we use the equity for. but essentially, racism is robbing people, black people, of that ability to uplift