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It’s Bigger Than Bail
By Anne Price, Medium Our criminal justice system is broken. Reforming, fixing or better yet reimagining how we think about safety and justice in America is imperative in our work toward racial and...
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Why a Social Wealth Fund Must Account for Racial Inequity
By Anne Price and Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Medium There has never been a more critical, more insistent time to reimagine and implement economic policies to address the rise of extreme racial and economic...
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Digging Deeper on the “Tools that Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor”
In mid-September, Insight president Anne Price had the pleasure of sitting down with Virginia Eubanks, an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, to discuss her work...
View ArticleOpinion: End criminal justice fees that harm minorities and poor
By Jhumpa Bhattacharya and Theresa Zhen | The Mercury News The Bay Area is known for its progressive values. We view ourselves as committed to ensuring everyone, regardless of race or ethnicity, is...
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Past the Drought: Overcoming Barriers to Economic Security in California’s...
Past the Drought: Overcoming Barriers to Economic Security in California’s Central Valley, a report released by the Insight Center in partnership with the California Asset Building Coalition, examines...
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A Paycheck Away from Financial Catastrophe
Anne Price, Medium Two weeks ago, following the longest government shutdown in U.S history, hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors headed back to work after going 35 days without...
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The Color of Wealth in Miami
A Joint Publication of: The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, and the Insight Center...
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The Distancing of Blackness in Miami
By Anne Price, Medium Last week in partnership with the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State...
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Clipped Wings: Closing the Wealth Gap for Millennial Women
Our new report, released in collaboration with Asset Funders Network (AFN) and the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (CWWG), reveals the current economic reality for millennial women and the primary...
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Centering Women of Color is the Path Forward to Economic Security for...
By Jhumpa Bhattacharya | Medium We are living in a remarkable time for the fight for gender equity. From #MeToo and #TimesUp to the unprecedented wave of women elected to congressional office, women...
View ArticleOpinion: California should eliminate court administrative fees
By Holly Mitchell and Jhumpa Bhattacharya | East Bay Times The way our criminal justice system operates is changing. Community members, policy advocates and a growing number of judges recognize that...
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The Payback Problem
Our new report, released in collaboration with PolicyLink, The San Francisco Financial Justice Project, Tipping Point Community and Western Center on Law & Poverty, reveals that taking parents’...
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Fresh, Feminist Voices are Exactly What Our Nation Needs Right Now
Jhumpa Bhattacharya | Ms. Magazine Paul Ryan’s advice to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on navigating Capitol Hill was to lay low and avoid ruffling any feathers. Thankfully, she didn’t listen to a...
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Opportunity for Every Worker: Toward a Fair Chance Workforce in the Bay Area
The Fair Chance Workforce System project was initiated by Rise Together, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development and Urban Strategies Council through a shared commitment to ensuring all...
View ArticleWhy the racial wealth gap still exists
MSNBC | May 20, 2019 Anne Price, President of the Insight Center, joined Ali Velshi to discuss why racial wealth disparity involves issues well beyond America’s education system. Click here to watch...
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Exploring Guaranteed Income Through A Racial And Gender Justice Lens
Race- and gender-based wealth inequities are two of the greatest failures of the American economy. Economic policy choices and practices put forth by those in power, such as the GI Bill and redlining,...
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Why This Matters: The Racial Wealth Gap Is a Symptom of Our Long-Broken Economy
Insight’s Jhumpa Bhattacharya had the honor of partnering with the Roosevelt Institute on an issue brief highlighting how and why the Guaranteed Income conversation must address racial and gender...
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Moving from Debate to Action
With the first Democratic primary debates taking place last week, we are seeing a more representative field of candidates take on the bigger and bolder policy ideas that have increasingly shaped...
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When “Going Back” Means Staying Put
By Jhumpa Bhattacharya | Ms. Magazine I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the word American. I hit all the marks by definition—I was born in the United States, in the Heartland, no less;...
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Preserving Black-Owned Land Is One of Our Greatest Triumphs Against Racial...
The President’s recent attacks on four congresswomen, telling them to go back to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” and his latest assault on a Black congressman,...
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