Data indicators often fail to tell the whole story about Black enterprise. Employment rates, for example, fail to take into account the quality of jobs held, whether they offer livable wages and how many jobseekers have given up on trying to enter the workforce. Similarly, the Black Business Association of Oregon (BBAO) wanted a more nuanced and real-time method of tracking the economic vitality of Oregon’s Black community – and the wealth gap between Black and White Oregonians.
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Photos: YouTube\Slideplayer\Twitter In the following commentary, Dr. Brooks Robinson, the founder of the Black Economics website, examines the media's role in the perpetuation of violence.
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the justice department in the trump administration has done. they have pushed back against republicans jeff sessions there are people within the president s circle, jeff sessions is awful when it comes to criminal justice. there are people inside the white house, gerald kushner is pushing prison reform. but it is going to happen. they have passed part of the bill. what they want. and, by the way, what the hell does he have to lose? can t we even look at unemployment? african-american unemployment. didn t it work? no, this is exactly trump s retort. whenever anybody asks about race. look at the unemployment rate. two things i would say to. this most of that reduction was under president obama and the second thing is, black unemployment remains double white unemployment. and then you get into the details, which i do in the book about programs that are intended to bolster black economics in this country either in terms of work or investment, and you see that the trump administra