Posts by Megan Carpentier

Jobless numbers show no evidence of a post-racial America

By Megan Carpentier | 04.06.10 | 9:15 am

The Obama Administration has done little, so far, to target higher rates of unemployment in communities of color as a result of the recession — let alone the existing conditions that lead to ongoing disproportionately high unemployment rates, specifically within African-American communities.

10 ways insurance companies will get out of reforming

By Megan Carpentier | 03.31.10 | 2:14 pm

If you thought that the health care reform bill was so expertly thought through as to prevent health insurance companies from engaging in the same end run around regulation practiced by the credit card companies, then

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Women of color face wealth and wage gaps

By Megan Carpentier | 03.09.10 | 2:55 pm

A new report from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development highlights one big reason that just addressing wage gaps — be they gender- or race-based — won’t necessarily change the disproportionate number of African-Americans who find…