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Blank, 66, announced the news Monday, the same day she was slated to take the helm of Northwestern University. She did not specify the type of cancer.

The report studied how much the Great Recession widened racial wealth gaps between Black and Brown families and the rest of the country.

Crucial themes from the report include lack of homeownership, differences in income, debt accrued and access to credit.

COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA MOTHER’S TRUST Cajania Brown, a Black single mother from Jackson, Mississippi, receives $1,000 per month as part of a cash assistance program called the Magnolia Mother’s Trust. Undoing Welfare Reform If Congress makes the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, simple, and universal, it could have reverberations across the entire welfare state. Cheri Honkala has been a welfare rights activist since the 1980s. It’s been decades of frustratingly slow work, ensuring that poor mothers like herself could access the benefits they needed to survive. These days, the ...

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan offers the most sweeping anti-poverty package for children in U.S. history.