The Cost of Being Californian: A Look at the Economic Health of California Families
Drawing on the 2018 Self-Sufficiency Standard for California, The Cost of Being Californian: A Look at the Economic Health of California Families details the precarious economic conditions faced by many families in California, where more than one [...]
What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
By William Darity Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Mark Paul, Alan Aja, Anne Price, Antonio Moore, and Caterina Chiopris Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development The racial wealth [...]
Fighting at Birth: Eradicating the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
Fighting at Birth: Eradicating the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, a new co-released report from the Insight Center and the Cook Center on Social Equity, provides a foundation for identifying and understanding root causes of the racial infant mortality [...]
Returning to the Promise of Full Employment: A Federal Job Guarantee in the United States
Returning to the Promise of Full Employment: A Federal Job Guarantee in the United States outlines the socioeconomic case for establishing a Federal Job Guarantee to fundamentally transform the U.S. labor market through the promise of inclusive economic opportunity. [...]
Driving Into Debt: The Need for Traffic Ticket Fee Reform
Driving Into Debt: The Need for Traffic Ticket Fee Reform is a detailed report highlighting the flaws and inequities of California's current traffic fine and fee system and offering specific recommendations for reforms that would promote sustainable [...]
Women, Race and Wealth
Women, Race and Wealth is the first in a series of briefs that summarize patterns of household wealth among Black and white women by college education, family structure and age using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [...]