The Race and Wealth Podcast Network

Our first of a number of episodes on COVID19 and the racial wealth divide, our first impressions on how Black and Latinx communities are affected, how to navigate the stimulus package, how have artists like Dyalekt been affected, small businesses like Brunch & Budget, and why neoliberalism won't save us.

A federal job guarantee is an old idea making its way back this election cycle. It’s controversial and considered radical—but what makes more sense than making sure that everyone who needs a job can get one? A job guarantee would bring financial stability to millions of families. And it would put people to work doing things the nation needs, such as building affordable housing and caring for children. In this episode, Angela Glover Blackwell explores the tantalizing possibilities—and the feasibility—of a federal job guarantee with one of its leading advocates, Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University.

This is the Preach to the Choir podcast where we explore how culture affects the racial wealth divide and vice versa recorded live at Greenhouse Studios with your hosts Deidrick Asante Muhammad Chief of race, wealth, community at NCRC, Pamela Capalad CFP and owner of Brunch and Budget, and Dyalekt Director of Pedagogy at Pockets Change. Pam: Can billionaires save us? Can they save you? We'll find out. We wanted to talk about this in particular because we already talked about the presidential candidates and what their stance was on the racial wealth divide. Now we have Bloomberg and Steyer both on the ticket two billionaires and they are spending a ton of ad money trying to appeal to the black and Latinx community in particular.

The virtual economy has been growing rapidly for the last decade and our virtual lives have only increased with covid. But as the virtual economy flourishes, who gets left behind? One click shopping with two days shipping makes it easy to ignore low wages and poor conditions. Will new opportunities widen the racial wealth divide or is there something different we can do this time? Catch us with Dedrick Asante Muhammad @bridgingtheracialwealthdivide on Friday at 2pm ET for our weekly Preach to the Choir podcast series, where we examine how art and media perpetuate the racial wealth divide. #systemicchange #blackeconomicpower #systemicracism #financialliteracy #financialfreedom