Black businesses and Biden’s infrastructure plan, the G-20 in an era of great power competition, and addressing school inequalities.
| COVID-19, the educational equity crisis, and the opportunity ahead “Our educational system in the United States was already highly inequitable and plagued by opportunity gaps in learning that have widened during the pandemic. Although we may see the light at the end of the tunnel on the coronavirus crisis, the educational equity crisis is just beginning,” says Heather Hough. Read more |
| How Black-owned businesses can make the most out of the Biden infrastructure plan Black businesses do not lack for quality or service compared to their white-owned counterparts, but they do lack investment on many different levels. Andre Perry, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, and Carl Romer write that for Black businesses to truly benefit from the Biden infrastructure plan, its investments must reach the sectors and places where those businesses operate. Read more |
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