The Cost of Being Californian: Soaring Economic Inequity for People of Color
New Report Finds Childcare Overtakes Housing as Biggest Household Expense The Cost of Being Californian, 2021 reveals that over one in three Californian households struggle to meet their basic needs, and that precarity rates are [...]
Building Equity by Supporting the Whole Student: Findings from Case Studies of Two Colleges in the Working Students Success Network
The philanthropic community recognizes that postsecondary education is a critical pathway to economic mobility and stability. Therefore, philanthropy has been using its grant making and voice to build support for the growing number of students [...]
Mississippi Is America: How Racism and Sexism Sustain a Two-Tiered Labor Market in the US and Constrict the Economic Power of Workers in Mississippi and Beyond
In a new report, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development demonstrates the consequences of America’s two-tiered labor market in which Black and brown workers and women are denied access to economic security on the [...]
COVID-19 Fact Sheet: Black Workers in New Orleans Face Higher Obstacles Than White Workers
A new brief released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development looks into the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on workers in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As a majority-Black city that was already grappling [...]
Black and Brown Owned Businesses Hit Hardest by COVID-19 Pandemic
This fact sheet based on data by Robert Fairlie and released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development shows that across the United States, businesses owned by Black, Latinx, and Asian people have closed down at [...]