politics

Policies that Help or Harm the Black Community

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Problems can be solved. This episode is all about solving the problems related to the gap between outcomes for black communities as compared to white communities. 

Race and racial tensions dominate the headlines. Very little of the news or arguments focus on how to make things better. This episode is all about solutions.

Dr. Richard A Johnson III is the director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative. He has been instrumental in crafting policies to help break the school to prison pipeline, and how to improve public safety, public works, healthcare. and housing.

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How Do We Re-Open the Economy After COVID-19?

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We have never had such a huge part of the American economy shut down immediately, without warning, and without an end in sight. What do we do now? How do we get ready to re-open? How do we limit the damage to the economy without risking excessive coronavirus carnage? Has Congress’s relief package provided much relief? Rob Henneke of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and I dive into these questions and more.