Darrick Hamilton

May 8, 2024 | equitablegrowth.org | Kate Bahn |Mark Paul |Darrick Hamilton |William Darity Jr.

Four years after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by three city police officers and the Black Lives Matter movement led large-scale protests across the country, workplaces across the U.S. economy are dropping their efforts to promote racial diversity, equity, and inclusion, spurred in part by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Apr 23, 2024 | es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Natalie Foster |Darrick Hamilton

Credit - Getty ImagesA white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation ending the era of legalized enslavement. Over forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines.

Apr 23, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Natalie Foster |Darrick Hamilton

Natalie Foster and Darrick HamiltonMon, Apr 22, 2024, 4:20 PM4 min readCredit - Getty ImagesA white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation ending the era of legalized enslavement. Over forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines.

Mar 27, 2024 | spotlightonpoverty.org | Darrick Hamilton

Vermont Becomes Latest State to Introduce Baby Bonds Legislation Earlier this year, Vermont became the latest state to introduce Baby Bonds legislation with a bill that would have $3,200 set aside for children born to families who qualify for Medicaid. The bonds become accessible to beneficiaries when they turn 18 and can be withdrawn for wealth-building activities like purchasing a home, pursuing higher education, or investing in businesses.

Mar 14, 2024 | aclu.org | Kendall Ciesemier |Darrick Hamilton |Ayanna Pressley

The “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be our culture’s prevailing narrative, but it actually rarely bears out this way. The truth is that our system is full of inequities that put large swaths of people in our country at significant odds with building wealth.