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BLACK WOMEN BEST: - The Roosevelt Institute

Overall, Black women have consistently been on the frontlines of this crisis, as essential workers, as caregivers in both informal and formal labor markets, and ...

Black Women Best Framework Points the Way to Equitable and Just ...

Some state revenue policies developed over a century ago to uphold white supremacy, such as property tax limits and supermajority requirements ...

Black Women Best: The Framework We Need for an Equitable ...

By making choices through the lens of Black Women Best, the US can begin not only to rectify its racist and sexist economic structures.

Black Women Best - Liberation in a Generation

Action Center on Race and the Economy · African American Juvenile Justice Project · Alexes Harris, University of Washington · Angie Ngo, BerlinRosen · Black Leaders ...

Building A “Black Women Best” Legislative Agenda

This report is largely informed by the BWB framework — a foundational economic framework created by Janelle Jones, the first Black woman to serve as chief.

How Janelle Jones's Story About Black Women and the Economy ...

The first Black woman to serve as chief economist at the Labor Department advanced the idea that lifting up people on the margins helps ...

Black Women Best - Data For Progress

If history has taught us anything, it's that Black people, particularly Black women, are among the last to recover from economic recessions, ...

Black Women's Best Framework - Mass Legal Services

Coined by Janelle Jones (2020), “Black women best” is an economic principle that argues if Black women—who, since our nation's founding, ...

Centering Black Women in Policy Would Lead to a More Inclusive ...

Centering the well-being of Black women [1] in fiscal and economic policy would allow lawmakers to address historical racist harms.

Janelle Jones has a plan to center racial equity - The 19th News

Janelle Jones is taking her “Black women best” economic framework — the concept that economic policy isn't working unless it's helping Black ...

'Black women best': Why putting Black women first may save us from ...

Our current economic crisis is unfortunately offering up disparity déjà vu. The ravages of the coronavirus have resulted in employment among ...

Centering Black Women in Income and Wealth Policymaking

Exploring the intersections of race and gender help illuminate the ways in which policies and practices can advance equity and narrow income and wealth gaps.

CBWG RELEASES BLACK WOMEN BEST POLICY FRAMEWORK ...

The 133-page report lays out how bringing Black women from the margins to the center of policy discussions benefits the entire economy.

“Black Women Best” in Ohio | Policy Matters Ohio | June 17, 2024

The report examines how exploitive employment practices, failures in the health care system, and a deeply flawed criminal legal system stack the deck against ...

Building A "Black Women Best" Legislative Agenda

Discussion of the Black Women Best report's findings and how policy can bring Black women from peril to prosperity and create a better economy for all.

What Black women need to know about breast cancer

Black women are now 41% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, despite a lower risk of being diagnosed with the disease.

States Should Center Black Women in Tax Reform

States and localities can realize more equitable, thriving economies by using their revenue policies to address the marginalization and ...

Celebrating Strength and Resistance: The Black Women Workers ...

Black women workers talk about taking pride in their work and desiring real opportunities to transform their workplaces so they can take ...

These 21 Black women changed history forever - TODAY.com

Learn about these trailblazing Black women in history including luminaries like Kamala Harris, Maya Angelou, Michelle Obama, Aretha Franklin ...

Black Women Best Archives - Marketplace.org

Janelle Jones is "super hopeful" about Black women's influence in the next U.S. government, but worried about the disinvestment that may come with austerity ...