From NYT: Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to wind up in the more onerous and costly form of consumer bankruptcy as they try to dig out from their debts, a new study has found. The disparity persisted even when the researchers adjusted for income, homeownership, assets and…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST Why The Voting Rights Act Is Still Necessary Today…
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Why We Needed Health Care Reform [Source: Center for American Progress] (7)
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From Prison Culture Blog: [T]he Sentencing Project released a new report about private prisons titled “Too Good To Be True.” The report details the history of private prisons in America, documents the increase in their use, and examines their supposed benefits. Among the report’s major findings: From 1999 to 2010…
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From LA Times: For years, Canada has had one of the most generous immigration policies in the world, welcoming tens of thousands of asylum applicants who claim to be fleeing persecution in their homelands. But Canada’s Conservative government has begun rolling up the welcome mat, stepping up efforts to track…
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From The Nation: When President Obama proposed his American Jobs Act back in September, he included $1.5 billion toward summer jobs and year-round employment for low-income youth ages 16–24. That was important, considering that just 49 percent of that age group was employed in July, the month when youth employment…
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From United for a Fair Economy: The last 30 years of public policy have hindered progress toward Dr. King’s dream of racial equality. Thirty years from now, people of color will collectively represent the majority of the U.S. population. If we continue along the same governing path, the racial economic…
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