Economic Policy
Joint Center President Quoted in Mother Jones on Wealth Distribution
Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad was quoted in Mother Jones discussing wealth distribution in response to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
From the article: “In just a handful of words, Michelle Obama managed to convey a simple truth, says Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington think tank that focuses on the racial wealth-and-opportunity gap: ‘It is not those asking to break up concentrated wealth and opportunity that are asking for an unfair advantage, but rather those who are hoarding concentrated wealth.'”
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