Archive for September 2018

An exclusive survey for Crain’s finds white college grads are happy with their prospects and neighborhoods, but other groups are much less so. Can a mayoral candidate pull backing from both? Read more at ChicagoBusiness.com

At an Equal Pay Day rally at the Daley Plaza yesterday, female leaders across the city highlighted the persistence of the gender wage gap in the United States. “Today is not a celebration. It’s a reminder of the work we still have to do to guarantee equal pay,” said Barbara Yong, founder of Equal Pay…

America’s income inequality is widening, and there’s one group that’s experiencing its impact more than any other: Asian-Americans. Asian-Americans have displaced blacks as the most economically divided racial group in the country, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center, which based its analysis on data from the U.S. Census Bureau from 1970…

Poor African-Americans have worse health outcomes than whites, but disparities also exist for blacks who earn six figures, research suggests. Read more at USNews.com

When We All Vote, a non-partisan organization inspiring voter turnout in the run up to Election Day in November, is working on a National Week of Action. Former First Lady Michelle Obama is serving as a co-chair. “When We All Vote, we get new ideas and new energy. We get leaders that share our values”…

Ayanna Pressley pulled off an unexpected victory on Tuesday in the Democratic congressional primary in Massachusetts’s Seventh District, beating 10-term incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano with 59 percent of the vote. Barring a last-minute write-in campaign during the general election, Pressley will be unopposed in November and become the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in…

The Democratic Congressional Committee announced on Wednesday that it would be supporting Connecticut congressional candidate Jahana Hayes, making her the latest Black woman to be added to the committee’s list of House contenders likely to flip house seats from red to blue in the upcoming election. Read more at Essence

Last week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel held a press conference to announce that he will not seek re-election in the 2019 Mayoral Race. The two-term mayor shocked residents, who had been bracing for a long political season as more than 9 candidates had already announced their campaigns. No clear front runner had been determined before…