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Joint Center Citations June 2009

June 21-30, 2009

Tackling the black-white wealth gap, Black Enterprise

81% of African Americans support climate action, Red, Green, and Blue, San Francisco Chronicle

Economic, community and political leaders to confront 'wealth gap,' Yahoo! News, PR Newswire, Sun Herald, AOL News, Fox Business

High court rules narrowly in voting rights case, NPR

Saving for retirement? Not so easy if you have no disposable income, Examiner

June 11-20, 2009

Group says wife 'puts a cloud' on Rep. Conyers, The Detroit News

Ethnic elders hit in retirement, New America Media

Joint Center names Vice President and Director of Media and Technology Institute, CNBC, SYS-CON, PR Newswire, Black Web 2.0, Yahoo! News, Washington Times

Pelosi throws support behind Rep. Conyers, The Detroit News,

Healthcare reform important to blacks, The Washington Informer, Black Voice News Online

White US Rep. in black Tenn. district faces fight, Google News, Yahoo! News, Star-Telegram, Lompoc Record, Knoxville News, ABC 7 News, MSNBC, Las Vegas Sun, The Tennessean

Conyers unlikely to hurt husband's job, The Detroit News

CTIA -The wireless association hosts a technology and policy forum on mHealth solutions for America's chronic care crisis, TMCnet

Obama's marriage defense shouldn't surprise or anger anyone, The Huffington Post, American Chronicle, OpEdNews

Intense match-up ahead for 9th District between Cohen, Herenton, Memphis Commercial Appeal

June 1-10, 2009

Low birth-weight: Racial-ethnic disparities persist, Child Trends

Report: Broadband adoption efforts must eliminate "access barrier," Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, Telephony Online

Biggest retirement obstacle: Poverty, Redwood Age

Houston Residents to Dialogue With National Experts on Climate Change Impacts, San Francisco Business Times, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Columbus Business First, Portland Business Journal, Nashville Business Journal, prnewswire.com, earthtimes.com, Yahoo! News, Earth Times

Will people save if you make it fun? stltoday.com

Civil Rights and Corporate Leaders Join Commission on Climate Change, Washington Informer

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Did You Know?

Did you know that only 29 percent of African American adults surveyed in an October-November 2005 Joint Center poll expected Social Security to be their major source of retirement income? Fewer of them (20 percent) expected an employer-sponsored pension plan to be their major source of income, and more (42 percent) expected that their major source of income would be their own retirement savings and investments.

Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, National Opinion Poll of African American Adults About Social Security and Wealth, 2005.