Joshua Weitz is a research associate at the Academic-Industry Research Network
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The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class
How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it
"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.
Employment Mobility and the Belated Emergence of the Black Middle Class
“Build back” means restoring the government and business investments in the productive capabilities of the U.S. labor force that created a growing middle class in the three decades after World War II
There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed