Political Studies
Joint Center Signs Comment Letter Opposing the Office of Personnel Management’s Interim Final Rule Removing References to the Uniform Guidelines on Employment Selection Procedures
The Joint Center joined Legal Defense Fund and over a dozen civil rights organizations in signing a comment letter to oppose the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) interim final rule…
Joint Center President Speaks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundational Annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall ‘Ready, Rooted, and Rising: Securing the Future for Black America’
This week, Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad provided special remarks at the #ALC55 National Town Hall titled “Ready, Rooted, and Rising: Securing the Future for Black America.” Asante-Muhammad joined over…
Joint Center Black Policy Playbook Report Highlighted by Maryland Matters
Joint Center’s “Forward Together: The Black Policy Playbook for An Equitable America” report, created in partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, was highlighted in a Maryland Matters article. The…
Op-Ed: Black Unemployment is Falling, But the Racial Economic Divide Continues
Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad penned an op-ed focused on the recent release of The State of the Black Labor Market report and what the first eight months looked like…
Joint Center Senate Committee Report Highlighted in Roll Call
The Joint Center report “Unrepresented: Black and Latino Leadership Among Senate Committee Top Staff,” which examines racial and ethnic diversity among Senate committee staff directors, deputy staff directors, chief counsels,…
Digging Deeper: 2026 Senate Democratic Caucus Diversity Numbers
On July 31, 2026, the Senate Democratic Caucus released an update of its demographic data on Democratic staff (find 2026 numbers here and 2025 numbers here). The analysis below ranks…
POLITICO Highlights Joint Center Second National Economic Roundtable
The POLITICO Influence newsletter highlighted the Joint Center’s second National Economic Roundtable convening. From the newsletter: “SPOTTED at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’s headquarters this afternoon for its second…
Unrepresented: Black and Latino Leadership Among Senate Committee Top Staff
While senators make the final decisions for their offices, top committee staff wield significant influence due to their deep subject matter expertise in specific policy areas. Corporations, advocacy organizations, news…
AfroTech Highlighted Joint Center Commentary on the Impact Current Policies Have on Black Women
AfroTech highlighted commentary from former Joint Center Senior Fellow Jessica Fulton in an article on Black women being hit the hardest by AI, layoffs, and DEI rollbacks. From the article:…
Joint Center Hosted First National Economic Roundtable Convening
The Joint Center hosted our first National Economic Roundtable convening. We brought together leaders across research, policy, and practice to engage in meaningful discussion about economic policy, the broader economy, and…