By Jessica Santos, PhD ’15, Director of the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research* A few years before I came to the Heller School as a PhD student to study social policy, I worked with newly arrived refugees. My job was to drive around Manchester, New Hampshire, and connect with hiring managers at hotels, cleaning companies, and industrial production facilities to “develop jobs” for new arrivals. I had the most fascinating conversations with these folks, […]
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The Institute for Economic and Racial Equity (IERE) is a research institute that advances economic opportunity and equity for individuals and families, particularly households of color and those kept out of the economic mainstream.
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity Education isn’t “the great equalizer,” as Horace Mann once said. Over the summer, I had the chance to work with the IERE Modeling Discriminatory Debt team as part of […]
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity “The main question for our technological future becomes, ‘Whose technology are we using and for what cause?’” Technology’s impact stood at my periphery, where the joys of late-night YouTube binges […]
By Pierrce Holmes, MPP Candidate and Segal Fellow Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity Despite this obsession with “fairness,” this country was built on the back of the most unfair system imaginable—chattel slavery. American culture […]
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Learning How to Build Community Wealth
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity “I want to talk about wealth because I want to be part of a movement that begins to change how we think about wealth.” Wealth is a taboo topic […]
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Racism Is a Public Policy Crisis
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. There are approximately 361 new Republican-sponsored voter restriction/suppression bills in 47 states, with 70 in Texas and Arizona. President Biden and Democrats have highlighted that these bills, arriving after […]
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. Earlier this month, IERE’s Children’s Savings Account (CSA) team released a report in partnership with the Asset Funders Network detailing the scale and makeup of funding in the CSA field. The report is a snapshot […]
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Denouncing the Olympics of Oppression
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the authors and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. Can we coalesce resistance to anti-Black racism and resistance to anti-Asian racism? Can we call out the hypocrisy of stereotyping Asians as synonymous with the pandemic and of Black […]
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. As an MPP/MBA student and graduate research assistant with IERE’s Empowerment Economics team, I have witnessed the power of collective action spaces. Building a collaborative space with Black, Indigenous, […]
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When We Practice What We Preach
Disclaimer: Posts are solely the views of the author and do not represent the views of Brandeis University or the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” –– Angela Davis How often do […]
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