I think in order to more accurately evaluate slow employment, we have to consider the disparate rates of unemployment that exists across different communities.

I think it is a necessary step to economic recovery.

I don't know that parents will feel very confident in sending their students back to school if we don't have consistent, enforceable standards that are in place.

the wealth gap is one of the reasons that we are seeing such a disparate impact of COVID-19 in communities of color

This hearing, like others, challenges us to make more critically--to think more critically about the impact of systemic racism in our Nation.

We must acknowledge the role that race plays in the distribution of wealth and benefits in this country if we are to ever address it.

Black business owners are less than 10 percent of all businesses owned in the United States.

That only gets your foot in the door. That just keeps you from being eliminated in that first round.

We have the twin pandemics, not only the COVID-19, but of the institutional racism in this country.

Low-income children and children of color already face enormous barriers to success.

Betsy DeVos' misguided equitable service guidance threatens to redirect critical resources away from disadvantaged students.