Ideas
By Natalie Foster and Darrick Hamilton
April 23, 2024 7:00 AM EDTFoster is the author of The Guarantee (New Press 2024) and President of Economic Security Project. Hamilton, university professor and Director of The Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New SchoolA white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation ending the era of legalized enslavement. Over forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated […]
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