The Thanos Snap, for those people unfamiliar with the recent Avengers movies, was villain Thanos’ use of a powerful artifact called the infinity gauntlet to reduce half the population of the universe to dust in a single moment. But would randomly removing half the human population help with the Racial Wealth Divide? Certainly, many societal […]

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Last week, Dyalekt summed up the prison industrial complex in one word: Slavery. 2.3 million Americans are in prison today and 60% of them are people of color. This week, we have special guest Stephanie Damon-Moore, a law student at NYU who has dedicated her studies to abolishing the prison system, join us on the […]

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This week’s Oldie-but-Goodie: To mark our 50th episode, we will be starting a 4-part series on the Prison Industrial Complex. In Part 1 of the PIC series, we talk about Prison as a Business: From corporations like the Corrections Corporation of America being publicly traded on the stock exchange to companies like Wendy’s, Walmart, Starbucks, […]

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Philanthropy sounds good: someone giving money to improve the world out of the goodness of their heart. The problem is that then those wealthy individuals get to dictate exactly how their money is used, and get corresponding tax breaks which take money away from what the larger public has decided it actually needs. Philanthropy as […]

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Universal Basic Income is the idea that people (sometimes everyone, sometimes only the poorer ones) should receive a basic, minimum amount of money each month, or every couple of weeks, in cash. Rather than giving people foodstamps, or Medicaid or other social programs which provide individuals with credits to be used only in a specific […]

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In order to make money, one has to spend money. You’ve heard of that saying before. The whole “work hard, play hard” concept. But what happens if your entire family is working hard and don’t see any financial progress? Why is it not working? This is common and an, often, ignored cycle happening in the […]

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As we continue our coverage of CFED’s 2016 Assets Learning Conference, we go deep on another critical topic for People of Color and closing the racial wealth gap. Entrepreneurship is another form of ownership and a way to build wealth in the US. While certainly more risky than homeownership in some ways, it is also […]

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Hari Kondabolu is a comedian who lives on his art, but it wasn’t always that way. He shares with us today his struggle to become a comedian, to get shows, to get an agent, and to make it. What does it really take? What were the hardest parts? What could he have done to make […]

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Episode 1: Does the Racial Wealth Divide Affect White People? We’re here with a special bonus episode. Starting in May, we are going to be part of a new podcast network called the Race & Wealth Podcast Network. We’re excited to be starting the network with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, who you may remember from Race & […]

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Sexual assault has been growing more visible in recent years, but it often doesn’t happen alone. Financial abuse, where one person has control of all the money, is one of the ways an abusive partner keeps control. It can be impossible to leave a situation without money, so today we talked about how financial abuse […]

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