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Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, August 2020

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

August 24, 2020

Unemployment Isn’t Too High — Regular Wages Are Too Low

Congress needs to open its eyes to the pandemic of poverty wage work, stop abetting it, and start promoting the kind of work that makes a good life possible.

August 17, 2020

Focus on Action and Resource Allocation

Cintra Pollack, investment and foundation manager,  moderated a discussion with Ben Carson Jr., Co-Founder, and Partner at Interprise Partners and Henry Childs, II, Founder and CEO at Minority Wealth Commission on how they are leveraging private capital to invest in underserved communities.

August 13, 2020

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, July 2020

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

July 31, 2020

Prioritizing Job Quality & Race Equity in the Pandemic Recovery

As businesses reopen, how can we seize this opportunity to advance job quality and race equity?

July 29, 2020

Allyship during America’s Season of Reckoning

 Lincoln Ellis moderated a discussion between three Native Sons seminar participants, Haley Littleton, Samuel Kimbriel, and Brenda Gerber Vincent. They discussed the initial impacts of their seminar experience and how their learning and growth has continued since leaving the seminar room.

July 28, 2020