My Comments: I will be following this report on poverty in America by Matt Black and Trymaine Lee over the coming months. It is troubling that in Duval County (Jacksonville), where I live, over 1 in 5 families live below the poverty line, while just one county over, it is less than 1 in 10.
The employment database the government knows for certain was breached by hackers from China contains a wealth of information, some of it sensitive, about a federal employee’s career.
Federal officials said Friday that the massive intrusion was wider than acknowledged and that a database holding sensitive security clearance information also was compromised. But the Office of Personnel Management has said little about the employment data for 4 million active and former employees that it disclosed in early June was hacked. We’ve learned more about this database.
Racism is still very much an issue in this country, one that pervades many aspects of life. But not everyone in America fully appreciates that fact. As many studiesshow, white Americans are often cut off from the realities of racism, living within homogeneous social networks and communities.
But if you have any doubts about whether racism still exists in America, this 3-minute video from Brave New Films, a California-based company that makes films to spur political activism, might clear them up. The video counts down eight reasons that racism is still very real in America, using research from Yale University, the American Civil Liberties Union and the New England Journal of Medicine, among others.
What accounts for the continuity of racial inequality in a postracist America? The fact that an earlier era’s racism was built into the structure of various economic, social, and political institutions, so that even their race-neutral operations today produce imbalanced outcomes.
Private searches make it easy to express taboo thoughts
Where do America’s most racist people live? “The rural Northeast and South,” suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE.
The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method for measuring the incidence of racist attitudes: Google search data. The methodology comes from data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. He’s used it before to measure the effect of racist attitudes onBarack Obama’s electoral prospects.
The New York Times has documented the “disappearance” of black men for the past decades through mass incarceration and death, but brings no solutions to the discussion.
The tragic and spiraling plight of black men in American society has reached such epic proportions that the national paper of record, the New York Times, is discussing the “disappearance” of African-American men from civil society. “The stigmatization of blackness presents an enormous obstacle,” it notes, “even to small boys.”
Poverty in America is concentrated in counties, regions, urban neighborhoods and reservations. Matt Black and Trymaine Lee document its current state.
