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Living in a World They Didn’t Make: A Look at Millennial Women
Medium By Jhumpa Bhattacharya The United States has a storied history of strong, fierce women fighting for equal rights and opportunity. Every mother hopes her daughter will fare better than she,...
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Fifty is the New Forgotten
Medium By Anne Price, President From Charlottesville to Hurricane Harvey to removing DACA, this past month has repeatedly reinforced one of the primary drivers of Insight’s work — the absolute...
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Opinion: Environmental legislation leaves low-income behind
East Bay Times By Jhumpa Bhattacharya The passage of two environmental bills — AB 398 and AB 617 — has been a hot topic these past weeks. The legislation extends California’s cap and trade program and...
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Universal Basic Income: Reclaiming Our Time for Racial Justice
Medium By Anne Price, President It’s been 40 years since we witnessed a Women’s Convention challenging our nation to take up equal rights of women in education, work, and in their personal lives, but...
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Opinion: Income program must be paired with honest dialog on race
East Bay Times By Jhumpa Bhattacharya Universal Basic Income — a policy idea whereby people receive unconditional funds to help meet their most essential needs — is making waves in California. The city...
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Utility Shutoffs Are Keeping Struggling Californians in the Dark
Medium By: Anne Price Energy is a basic need in a modern economy — some would even argue that uninterrupted energy service and electric power is a fundamental human right. Yet we are witnessing a...
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Fighting at Birth: Eradicating the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
Fighting at Birth: Eradicating the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, a new co-released report from the Insight Center and the Cook Center on Social Equity, provides a foundation for identifying and...
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Surviving American Racism
By Anne Price Medium A recent study led by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and the Census Bureau is intensifying the national discussion around income inequality. The findings once again confirm that...
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What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
By William Darity Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Mark Paul, Alan Aja, Anne Price, Antonio Moore, and Caterina Chiopris Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and the Insight Center for Community Economic...
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The Cost of Being Californian: A Look at the Economic Health of California...
Drawing on the 2018 Self-Sufficiency Standard for California, The Cost of Being Californian: A Look at the Economic Health of California Families details the precarious economic conditions faced by...
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Episode 14: Alan Aja
Listen to Anne Price and Alan Aja discuss potential solutions to the crisis in Puerto Rico, racism among the Latinx community, and a sneak peek at a new collaboration coming this fall. Alan A. Aja is...
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Toward Racial Equity
By Anne Price Medium The issue of race, public space, and who belongs was at the forefront this week when Starbucks closed its 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon to provide unconscious-bias training to...
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Los Angeles County Can Do Better by Its African American and Latinx Populations
By Jhumpa Bhattacharya Medium A lot happened on election day this week, including the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously passing vital legislation to waive all unpaid debt and eliminate...
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Families Belong Together
Photo: Paul Becker CC BY 2.0 We at the Insight Center are horrified and outraged at the Trump administration’s inhumane policy to separate children from their parents at our nation’s southern border....
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Delayed Liberation
By Anne Price Medium Last week, Insight hosted its first Juneteenth economic forum commemorating June 19th, 1865, when a reluctant Texas state government finally emancipated a quarter of a million...
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Personhood Before Work
By: Anne Price Medium Earlier this month, the Trump administration quietly announced that it will allow individual states to impose work requirements on “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients — those aged...
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Seeding a Generation with Wealth
An Interview with Anne Price, BlackHer Building our personal, economic, and political power by getting educated and organized, and taking action for progressive change, that’s what we’re all about at...
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A True Reconciliation: Addressing Our Nation’s Social Safety Net
By Anne Price, Medium Last week, remarks from a Minnesota lawmaker surfaced in which he was reported as referring to people receiving public benefits as “parasites” and “scoundrels.” The Congressman...
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City Visions | KALW Radio Program
Anne Price, alongside Chris Hoene, Executive Director of the California Budget & Policy Center, and Taylor Jo Isenberg, Managing Director of the Economic Security Project, explored the promise of...
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SB10 Will Hurt, Not Help
By Jacob Denney, Medium This week, California legislatures moved forward in passing Senate Bill 10 to eliminate money bail. While eliminating money bail is desperately needed to fix our broken criminal...
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