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To expand the economy, invest in Black businesses. If the number of Black businesses matched the population size and the employees per firm matched non-Black businesses, it would create more than 19 million jobs, new research by Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer shows.
What Deb Haaland’s historic nomination as interior secretary means for Indigenous peoples. Robert Maxim and Randall Akee write that the nomination marks a turning point in valuing the experiences, knowledge, and leadership of Native American nations.
We should design cities for shorter distances, not faster speeds. Even as drivers enjoy free-flowing traffic as a consequence of COVID-19, long-standing structural concerns in transportation remain. The pandemic proved that solving congestion doesn’t address our bigger transportation problems, Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane discuss.
Assisting the millions of young adults that are out of school or work. "President-elect Joe Biden—himself a beneficiary of an era of cheap tuition and plentiful jobs—can initiate a new era of opportunity by promising education and employment for all young people." Martha Ross and Thomas Showalter outline how this can be achieved.
Addressing the harms of legacy infrastructure in the COVID-19 recovery. To truly improve the country’s infrastructure and help the most vulnerable households, federal leaders cannot simply throw more money at shiny new projects, a new two-part brief by Joseph W. Kane and Shalini Vajjhala argues. Instead, leaders must invest with purpose and undo the harms of our legacy infrastructure systems.
A conversation about racial justice and worker mobility. In case you missed it, watch the second event from the Brookings Blueprints for American Prosperity and Renewal series, held on January 6, featuring Brookings President John R. Allen alongside a panel of experts.
