Behind the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’: Wealth for the Few

Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and former Joint Center Intern Jaidyn McKinnie co-authored an op-ed published in Word In Black on the impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and how it will continue to deepen the racial wealth divide.

From the op-ed: “The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act represents an over 40-year march toward concentrating wealth among the wealthy and deepening the racial disparity under the guise of economic growth. In practice, it is a project of wealth consolidation, recycling the same logic that stripped Black communities of opportunity, blamed them for its consequences, and codified that inequality into law.”

Click here to read the full piece. This op-ed was published in URL Media and the LA Sentinel.