The United States Senate finally stepped up to ensure that student loan rates would not double, as might have happened.
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Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA. She is an economist, commentator and president of PUSH Excel, the educational branch of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. She can be reached at Juliannemalveaux.com.
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What African Americans can learn from South Africa
Nelson Mandela turned 95 years old on Thursday, July 18. He has been hospitalized for more than a month, and the world holds its breath as we witness the decline of the lion who roared for freedom in South Africa.
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The scourge of gun violence
Trayvon Martin might not be dead except for the fact that George Zimmerman carried a gun around and acted as a wannabe policeman. Rev. Al Sharpton and others deserve props for rallying people and insisting that Zimmerman be brought to trial.
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Limiting women’s rights
I was 20 when Roe v. Wade was decided. A year before the decision, a young woman who lived in my dormitory attempted to abort her fetus and hemorrhaged so badly that she was hospitalized.
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The minimum wage for the least and left out
It seems that the term “poverty” has been sidelined from our national discourse, even though 15 percent of all Americans and 26 percent of African Americans experience poverty.
The Fair Labor Standards Act was signed on June 25, 1938, 75 years ago, so perhaps this is a good time to explore the roots of the minimum wage and why its establishment remains important.
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If you don’t like disparities, try equality
Last week I attended a “think tank” conversation with leaders of the Rodham Institute, a newly established center at George Washington University that is dedicated to reducing health disparities in Washington, D.C. This is an important effort, because D.C. is such a divided city.
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How Big Brother uses data collection
When George Orwell wrote the novel “1984,” he envisioned a character, a real or imagined “Big Brother” who was a know-all, see-all, omnipotent and elusive presence that intruded into lives because he could. Those who knew about “him” were told that they did not exist, but in many ways, Big Brother may not have existed either. The omnipotence had taken on a life of its own.
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The uneven recovery
Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent, there are some who insist that there is a robust economic recovery in progress.
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Federal contracting promotes inequality
On May 21, I had the opportunity to testify before a Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting on the fact that federal dollars drive inequality by paying contractors who pay too many of their workers very little.
