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Eliminating the Black-White Wealth Gap Is a Generational Challenge - Center for American Progress
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The past year has revealed deep fractures in our economy, polity, and society, endangering not only lives but also long-term livelihoods. As policymakers chart a transition to a more inclusive recovery, how do we heal these fractures? This conference will explore the structural changes and innovative thinking required to restore norms, increase investment, and sustain economic growth that benefits all.
Presented by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance, this online event will bring together academic researchers, industry practitioners, and government policymakers. The conference will be streamed live on YouTube and videos will be available in our YouTube Video Library. There is no fee to attend this conference, which is open to the University community as well as the public. Registration is required.
Ohio State economics professor Trevon Logan joins
Dr. Terrance Dean and The Other Side podcast host Scot Kirk to talk about Logan s recent column in The Dispatch on how policies enacted decades ago to keep neighborhoods segregated still affect cities today.
Logan explains how decisions on where to build highways, zoning for new housing developments, and redlining of neighborhoods kept Blacks in less desirable areas of cities and hindered them from accumulating the wealth that comes from home ownership.
Logan also argues that since segregation is the result of deliberate policy decisions, that s why he supports reparations for African-Americans.
The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy
Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the âtaxpayerâ has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy. A composite photograph of South Carolina s majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction (Library of Congress)
From the Southern strategy of the 1960s to Donald Trumpâs refusal to concede the presidential election, it is easy to trace the Republican Partyâs decades-long descent into racial authoritarianism. Despite the presidentâs unhinged response to the election results, the real locus of power is the Senate, where Republican legislators have been striking sober-sounding notes about the need for smaller government, an end to relief spending, and the danger of higher taxes. Those desperate to see a return to normalcy may hail this born-again fiscal conservatism as a departure from Trumpâs racist, antidem
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