I am concerned and I worry that this will disproportionately impact working families with children trying to climb out of poverty.
I think we need some more sticks on this policy.
So analyzing policies in that way, the decline in union density has been most dramatic among black workers, and the lack of access to union ...
We cannot talk about income inequality without talking about racial inequality.
The moment, I think, has come to study and look at what reparations mean.
I care deeply about rising income inequality in our country and have been working on it for many years.
It is vitally important because at the root it is being blind when we make policies across the board on many issues, and the effect of many ...
And I am going to suggest to this Committee that the next time we have a hearing on economic inequality we add 'racial.' We have to say econ...
This is why we cannot have a regional minimum wage. A regional minimum wage would have such a huge racial disparate impact it would border o...
So giving a tax cut like we just did has a racially disparate impact because of the huge tax cut we gave from which people of color did not ...
Since the 70s, economic growth for middle class and low income workers has only risen actually by one-third while income for the top 1 perce...