Barbara A. Sasso
"African American Homeownership Falls to 50-year Low." National Association of Real Estate Brokers Areb. 2016. Accessed May 27, 2018. http://www.nareb.com/african-american-homeownership-falls-50-year-low/. Information that should be assessed for cause.
"African-American Businesses." Wikipedia. June 01, 2018. Accessed June 04, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_businesses. Some indications of success.
"America's Consumption of Alcohol Over Time Since 1860 [Charts]." VinePair. March 09, 2017. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://vinepair.com/articles/americas-consumption-beer-wine-spirits-since/. Rise in different consumption of alcohol over time.
Badger, Emily, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce, and Kevin Quealy. "Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys." The New York Times. March 19, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html. Tragic data regarding African American males.
Badger, Emily, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce, and Kevin Quealy. "Income Mobility Charts for Girls, Asian-Americans and Other Groups. Or Make Your Own." The New York Times. March 27, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/make-your-own-mobility-animation.html. Interactive chart to trace data-based outcomes.
"Blacks Still Face a Red Line on Housing." The New York Times. April 14, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/opinion/blacks-still-face-a-red-line-on-housing.html. Also includes historical background.
Bouston, Leah Platt. "The Great Black Migration: Opportunity and Competition in Northern Labor Markets."
FOCUS
32, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 24-27. https://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc321e.pdf. Economic changes for African Americans in the Great Migration.
Bradford, William D, and Narachimeg Mijid. “Race.”
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
, 2018, www.kauffman.org/microsites/state-of-the-field/topics/background-of-entrepreneurs/demographics/race. Why minority businesses lag behind white-owned ones.
Brill, Steven. "Steven Brill's "Tailspin": How My Generation Broke America." Time. May 17, 2018. Accessed June 03, 2018. http://time.com/5280446/baby-boomer-generation-america-steve-brill/. Brill thoroughly describes our current economic and political disaster and offers some solutions
"Carl Augustus Hansberry." Wikipedia. May 28, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Augustus_Hansberry. Hansberry’s father’s famous Supreme Court case on housing discrimination.
"Census Bureau Reports the Number of Black-Owned Businesses Increased at Triple the National Rate.” Newsroom Archive. U.S. Census Bureau. Feb. 8, 2011. Accessed June 04, 2018. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/business_ownership/cb11-24.html. Data that is encouraging for African American students.
"Changing the Face of Medicine | Agnes D. Lattimer." U.S. National Library of Medicine. June 03, 2015. Accessed June 04, 2018. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_193.html. Positive history about African American women doctors.
Chetty, Raj, and Nathaniel Hendren. "The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects." 2016. Accessed May 27, 2018. doi:10.3386/w23001. Why equal housing is so important.
Chetty, Raj, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan. "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility." 2017. Accessed May 27, 2018. doi:10.3386/w23618. Why it is so important for colleges to stay affordable.
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter. "Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective."
The Equality of Opportunity Project
, 2018. doi:10.3386/w24441. How parental income affects children.
Collins, William. "Race and Twentieth-Century American Economic History." National Bureau of Economic Research. Winter 2006. Accessed May 27, 2018. http://www.nber.org/reporter/winter06/collins.html. Data indicating positive changes.
DeSilver, Drew. "Who's Poor in America? 50 Years into the 'War on Poverty,' a Data Portrait." Pew Research Center. January 13, 2014. Accessed June 03, 2018. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/13/whos-poor-in-america-50-years-into-the-war-on-poverty-a-data-portrait/. Data on persistence of poverty.
Duncan, Greg J., and Richard J. Murnane.
Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children
. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. The value of education and neighborhood
"Edna Chavez - March For Our Lives (Full Speech)." YouTube. March 28, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinNvKznltA. Future American president.
"English Language Arts Standards." Common Core Standards Initiative 2018. 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/. Used to shape many ELA curriculum units.
The Equality of Opportunity Project. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/. A very useful database for research on injustice in economics by Harvard researcher Raj Chetty and others.
"Forcing Black Men Out of Society." The New York Times. April 25, 2015. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/opinion/sunday/forcing-black-men-out-of-society.html. Why African American boys continue to fails.
Gathright, Jenny. "Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists." WSHU National Public Radio. March 19, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. http://wshu.org/post/forget-wealth-and-neighborhood-racial-income-gap-persists#stream/0. Another reason for supporting affordable housing.
Hansberry, Lorraine.
A Raisin in the Sun
. Dallas: McDougal Littell, 1997. Excellent edition of this play, with ancillary short stories and poems.
"Historical Census of Housing Tables Home Values." US Census Bureau. June 01, 2000. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/values.html. Very useful source for determining home values over time.
"Inflation Calculator." Inflation Calculator. Value of $100,000 in Today's Dollars, by Year. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://www.saving.org/inflation/custom/inflation-2804. A nice conversion tool.
Kurtzleben, Danielle. "Fact Check: Trump Touts Low Unemployment Rates For African-Americans, Hispanics." NPR. January 08, 2018. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/576552028/fact-check-trump-touts-low-unemployment-rates-for-african-americans-hispanics. The data is positive, but has nothing to do with Trump.
Leonhardt, David. "The Growing College Graduation Gap." The New York Times. March 25, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/25/opinion/college-graduation-gap.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region. Supporting higher education to shrink income gap.
Lewis, Matt. "Obama Loves Martin Luther King's Great Quote-But He Uses It Incorrectly." The Daily Beast. January 16, 2017. Accessed May 28, 2018. https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-loves-martin-luther-kings-great-quotebut-he-uses-it-incorrectly. Another misquote of a famous line.
Luhby, Tami. "43% of U.S. Families Can't Afford Basics of Middle Class Life." CNN Money. May 18, 2018. Accessed May 28, 2018. http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/17/news/economy/us-middle-class-basics-study/index.html. The increasing income gap hurts everyone.
Macartney, Suzanne, Alemayehu Bishaw, and Kayla Fontenot.
Poverty Rates for Selected Detailed Race and Hispanic Groups by State and Place: 2007-2011
. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau, 2013. Statistics on poverty.
Mondale, Walter F. "Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored." The New York Times. April 10, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/opinion/walter-mondale-fair-housing-act.html. Walter Mondale co-authored the Fair Housing Act.
"Number of Minority-Owned Employer Firms Increased in 2015." United States Census Bureau. July 13, 2017. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/minority-owned-employer-firms.html. Positive news.
O'Donnell, Maureen. "Dr. Agnes Lattimer, Dead at 89, Lauded as 1st Black Woman to Head Major Hospital." Chicago Sun-Times. March 02, 2018. Accessed June 04, 2018. https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/dr-agnes-lattimer-dead-at-89-lauded-as-1st-black-woman-to-head-major-hospital/. Successful female African American doctor from the 1950’s.
Pearson, Steve. "1950's Homes including Prices." The People History. 2016. Accessed June 03, 2018. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50s-homes.html. Statistics for the play.
Perry, Andre M. "Who Deserves Credit for African American Employment?" Brookings. February 05, 2018. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/02/01/who-deserves-credit-for-african-american-employment/. Decreases in African American unemployment by city.
Pfeffer, Fabian T. "Growing Wealth Gaps in Education."
Demography
, 2018. doi:10.1007/s13524-018-0666-7. Why supporting education in necessary.
Piketty, Thomas, and Arthur Goldhammer.
Capital in the Twenty-first Century
. London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. An enlightening book worth reading.
"Quarterly Homeownership Rates by Race and Ethnicity of Householder for the United States: 1994–2017." US Census Bureau. February 27, 2018. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.bing.com/cr?IG=57D408BC3F604DFE9DE9E39A7FE5A099&CID=02AD890EBEFE6FD0201582F2BF036EF1&rd=1&h=XknWLZu4FkPURnBrvsILnhvGN8-xhEzppDUTv-4k0jU&v=1&r=https%3a%2f%2fwww.census.gov%2fhousing%2fhvs%2fdata%2fcharts%2ffig08.pdf&p=DevEx.LB.1,5534.1. Decline in home ownership for African Americans.
Rasmussen, Dennis C. "The Problem With Inequality, According to Adam Smith." The Atlantic. June 09, 2016. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-problem-with-inequality-according-to-adam-smith/486071/. Why income inequality is inefficient.
"Report for 6140 S. Rhodes Ave., Chicago, IL." Login - US Realty Records. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://usrealtyrecords.com/member/report?id=1548705. Lorraine Hansberry’s childhood home on the market.
Rosling, Hans. "Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats." BBC Four. November 26, 2010. Accessed May 28, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo. Positive information about rising global prosperity, along with rising income inequality.
Semuels, Alana. "Can Better Data Help Solve America's Housing Problems?" The Atlantic. July 08, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/new-hud-rules-fair-housing/397997/. Obama administration’s rules to track why African American home ownership is down. Current administration is denouncing this study.
"Slavery in the United States." Wikipedia. May 27, 2018. Accessed May 28, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#/media/File:US_Slave_Free_1789-1861.gif. Animated graph showing growth of slavery in the United States.
"State of Working America: Poverty Rate, by Race and Ethnicity, and Age, 2013." Economic Policy Institute. Accessed May 27, 2018. http://stateofworkingamerica.org/chart/swa-poverty-figure-7d-poverty-rate-raceethnicity/. Good website overall for data on poverty rates.
"The Student Body at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, CT." U.S. News & World Report. Accessed May 27, 2018. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/connecticut/districts/new-haven-school-district/wilbur-cross-high-school-4498/student-body. Demographics of Wilbur Cross.
"University History." Educational Costs (1950-1959), University of Pennsylvania University Archives. 2017. Accessed June 04, 2018. https://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/tuition/1950.html. What a good education and medical school used to cost.
"Visualizing the Great Northern Migration." Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art - One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series. 2015. Accessed May 28, 2018. https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2015/onewayticket/visualizing-the-great-migration/. Excellent website for this exhibition. A lot of supplemental sources. Enriching.
"Washington Park, Chicago (community Area)." Wikipedia. May 01, 2018. Accessed June 03, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park,_Chicago_(community_area)#cite_note-cmap-1. Hansberry’s childhood neighborhood is still a ghetto.
"Wealth Inequality in America." YouTube. November 20, 2012. Accessed May 28, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM. Illustrating the problem nicely for students.
Weissmann, Jordan. "Did the Rich Really Pay Much Higher Taxes in the 1950s? The Answer Is a Little Complicated." Slate Magazine. August 07, 2017. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/08/07/the_history_of_tax_rates_for_the_rich.html. Legal tax loopholes for the wealthy.
"WID – World Inequality Database." World Inequality Database. Accessed May 27, 2018. http://wid.world/country/usa/. An excellent source for graphs and data.
Zillow, Inc. "Chicago IL Home Prices & Home Values | Zillow." Premier Agent Resource Center. 2018. https://www.zillow.com/chicago-il/home-values/. Primary source for home values.