Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author or editor of 17 books. He is working on a book about housing segregation.
Posted inHousing
The Low-Wage Mothers of Color Who Want to Become Suburban Moms
Trump favors the exclusionary zoning that keeps America segregated and economically ossified. Biden opposes it.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Government Created Housing Segregation. Here’s How the Government Can End It.
No policy limits African American income, wealth, and education as thoroughly as housing segregation. Herewith, a plan to end it.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Taking on Class and Racial Discrimination in Housing
Cory Booker’s big idea to rein in exclusionary zoning
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Reviving the Fair Housing Act at 50
New efforts in progressive states focus on affordability—which would also diminish segregation.
Posted inEducation in America
Acting Education Secretary Champions Economic, Racial Integration
Acting Education Secretary John B. King has signaled that racial and socioeconomic integration will now take center stage in federal education policy.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Labor at a Crossroads: Can Broadened Civil Rights Law Offer Workers a True Right to Organize?
It’s one way to allow victims of anti-union discrimination to sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Class-Based Future of Affirmative Action
Progressives must move on from the idea of race-based admissions policies.
Posted inEducation in America
The Affirmative Action Trap
Obama is weighing in on the University of Texas’s affirmative action policy, but it may be politically dangerous for him to do so.
