Busing at 50: Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope
Money, Power, Inequality
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Why, after years of new policies and good intentions, is Boston still so unequal? And what can we do about it? The Money, Power, Inequality team will zero in on the racial wealth gap and why it persists.
That includes a fuller exploration of our history of inequities: the role of Boston in the slave trade and tracing the systems and policies that have enabled the racial wealth gap to endure.
We’ll explore the societal structures — both intentional and accidental — that stand in the way of wealth equality, from housing policies to a higher education system that favors those who already have the resources. It also means showing how the wealth gap hurts us all, and how closing it doesn’t mean that others lose out. We will focus on illuminating big and bold solutions. And we’ll do this work in conversation with our readers and the community.
The Money, Power, Inequality team
More Globe stories on inequality
‘Jarring’: New England students lament a plunge in diversity at campuses since affirmative action ruling
Students expressed unease that classes will lack wider perspectives from peers who hail from different backgrounds.
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Hundreds of women in communities across the state are far from their extended families, facing the profound emotional and physical toll of pregnancy in a foreign land with no place to call home.
Black-owned businesses saw a surge of support after George Floyd’s murder. Since then? Not so much.
The waning support, Black entrepreneurs and advocates say, hinders one of the most important ways ordinary people can help combat the Boston area’s stark racial wealth gap.
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Warren presses Stop & Shop on grocery prices after study shows differences across neighborhoods
Senator Ed Markey, as well as US Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern, joined Senator Elizabeth Warren in signing the letter.
Immigration limbo for a Malden family on the edge of poverty: ‘I don’t want my kids to feel like “My mom can’t do it”’
It’s been a trying summer for the Thous. The household’s breadwinner, Vibol Thou, is a man without a country who can’t seem to outrun his troubled past.
‘It is heartbreaking’: Black first-year enrollment plunges at top colleges, post-affirmative action
The data are still preliminary, but some scholars and advocates say they are concerned about the declines in Black enrollment.
Money, Power, Inequality
Boston’s Black, Latino, Asian families are making more money, but income gaps remain, census data show
White households have seen the most long-term income growth in Boston.
