We Must Stop Thinking the Way to Fix Racial Economic Disparities in the US is to fix Black People
Channel: Economic Policy Institute
Date: 2021-04-20

"We must disabuse ourselves of the idea that the way to fix racial economic disparities in this country is to fix Black people—to train them more, to get more of them into college, to teach them financial literacy, to improve their health behaviors," writes Kyle K. Moore, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. "It is not that these strategies can’t be beneficial at the level of the individual, or perhaps even good for their own sake. It’s that promoting these as the solution to the problems Black people as a group face relies on the inherent assumption that Black people are somehow different (and deficient) compared to other groups." 

Moore spoke at a recent webinar titled: Achieving Economic and Racial Justice for Black Workers
Policy Priorities for 2021 and Beyond. https://www.epi.org/event/achieving-economic-and-racial-justice-for-black-workers-policy-priorities-for-2021-and-beyond/



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