Op-Eds
Op-Ed: If Trump Wants a Deal With Democrats, Here’s Where to Start
Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad penned an op-ed for The Root on legislative proposals President Donald Trump can utilize to end his term in compromise with the Democrats and address…
Op-Ed: Black Political Power and The Blue Wave
Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad penned a new op-ed on the results of the midterm elections, how this impacts Black voters, and what this means moving forward. This essay was…
Op-Ed: Why Does Crypto Want “CLARITY”?
Joint Center Senior Researcher for Financial Regulation and Policy, Cantrell Dumas, authored an op-ed examining what government regulation of the cryptocurrency industry could mean for consumer behavior. The piece examines…
Op-Ed: Gas, Tariffs, and the Emerging Black Cost-of-Living Crisis
Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad penned an op-ed discussing how economic and military policy shifts by the Trump administration are worsening long-standing disparities in income, wealth, and labor market positioning…
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…
Op-Ed: You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See: Why Eliminating Workplace Diversity Data Threatens Black Workers
The recent proposal before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) could make it harder to collect and disseminate detailed workforce demographic data, potentially limiting our ability to identify and address…
Op-Ed: Why the Senate Must Strengthen Its Leadership Pipeline
Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Joint Center Senior Researcher Dr. LaShonda Brenson penned a joint op-ed right after the Senate Democrats’ staff diversity survey release and builds on our Senate committee report.It argues that while recent data…
Op-Ed: What Isn’t Measured Can Be Denied — A Call to Defend the EEO-1 Before Aug. 24
Joint Center Senior Fellow Eric Morrissette penned an op-ed on a proposal before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to eliminate the EEO-1 Report requirement. This would be detrimental to workers…
Op-Ed: How AI Could Automate the Poor Tax
Joint Center Senior Advisor and Tech Policy Director Danielle Davis Canty Esq. penned an op-ed examining how, if left unregulated, AI could automate the poor tax through surveillance pricing. The…
Op-Ed: The Head of Household Illusion: The Tax Break That Skips the Mothers It Was Built For
Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law at Vanderbilt University and Dr. LaToya B. Parker, Senior Researcher for the Tax and Wealth Policy Program at the Joint Center, penned an opinion…