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Four-Day Weeks Date Back Decades. Are We Progressing?

Sep 3, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Julia Craven |Lucy Webster |Holly Baxter |Ebony Reed

Worklife — 7 min read Almost three months after publishing a manifesto chock-full of shiny promises, and two months after assuming leadership of the U.K.’s embattled government, Britain’s Labour party may be starting to show signs of making good on one of its most avowed pledges: to be the party for working people. Last week, news outlets in the U.K. reported on government plans to give workers the right to request “a four-day working week” without facing repercussions.
Democrats' Efforts To Cut Maternal Mortality Have Been Weak

Aug 29, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Lucy Webster |Holly Baxter |Ebony Reed |Julia Craven

The U.S. presidential election has been, to put it mildly, head-spinning. A CNN debate nobody could stop talking about. An assassination attempt. A late-in-the-race drop-out. A conversation on X plagued by tech troubles. Standing ovations at the DNC. It’s certainly kept us on our toes. This might explain, in part, why the White House’s sprawling update on efforts to combat the U.S. maternal health crisis—released on July 10—hasn’t been top of mind.
Paralympics 2024 Won't Improve Disabled People's Lives

Aug 27, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Holly Baxter |Ebony Reed |Emma Haslett |Lucy Webster

Welcome back to Paris. For a week and a half—starting this Wednesday—spectators will have the opportunity to watch elite athletes achieve remarkable things at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Around the world, viewers will no doubt harbor and voice unsolicited opinions about sports that, up until now, they barely knew existed. And for disabled people? This is our once-every-few-years chance to see people who look, sound and move like us on TV.
How Do You Fight Trump in 2024? With Fear, Humor and Optimism-All At Once

Aug 22, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Ebony Reed |Emma Haslett |Holly Baxter

On Tuesday, a Women’s Caucus meeting was held in a side room at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The speakers were well-intentioned and boasted impressive resumés, but the event had poor attendance. The audio was just a little off. The podiums were too tall for the speakers and ill-placed so that those seated on one side of the table couldn’t see the audience on the other.
Why Black Women Must Plan for the Worst

Aug 22, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Ebony Reed

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The Extraordinary Story of Free Speech in America

Jul 17, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Ebony Reed |David De Cremer |Leslie Zane |Jonathan Turley

Jonathan Turley is a law professor, columnist, television analyst, and litigator. Since 1998, he has held the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School. He has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases of the past two decades and has testified before Congress over a hundred times.
5 Reasons Every CEO Needs to Get Comfortable with AI

Jul 17, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Ebony Reed |Jonathan Turley |Leslie Zane |David De Cremer

David De Cremer is the Dunton Family Dean at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston, where he is also a professor in management and technology. Below, David shares five key insights from his new book, The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work. Listen to the audio version—read by David himself—in the Next Big Idea App.
Ebony Reed: The G.I. did great things - but not for Black veterans

Jul 5, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Ebony Reed

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COMMENTARY: GI Bill widened Black-white wealth gap | Jefferson City News-Tribune

Jul 2, 2024 | newstribune.com | Ebony Reed

COMMENTARY: GI Bill widened Black-white wealth gapToday at 3:00 a.m.byEbony Reed, Los Angeles Times (TNS)At a time when it was extremely difficult for Black families to purchase homes and utilize government benefits, my grandfather accomplished an almost impossible feat: He used the GI Bill after World War II and bought a house. For Upcoming Events
How the GI Bill widened the Black-white wealth gap

Jul 1, 2024 | fredericknewspost.com | Ebony Reed

At a time when it was extremely difficult for Black families to purchase homes and utilize government benefits, my grandfather accomplished an almost impossible feat: He used the GI Bill after World War II and bought a house. For three years, I’ve researched the Black-white wealth gap. In interviews with Black families, I learned that discrimination prevented their relatives from using the GI Bill. kAm|J 72>:=J’D C2C6 DE@CJ @7 9@>6@H?6CD9:A H96?