Jun 9, 2020

The legacy of slavery in this economy

A group of women and children, presumably slaves, sit and stand around the doorway of a rough wooden cabin in the southern United States in the mid-19th century. One girl reads a book to the group of sitting children. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Plus: How the National Bureau of Economic Research makes a call on what's a recession, and the racial wage gaps at Bon Appetit and beyond.

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The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery

by Kimberly Adams

Aug 14, 2018

How slaveholders used modern management techniques

A group of women and children, presumably slaves, sit and stand around the doorway of a rough wooden cabin in the southern United States in the mid-19th century. One girl reads a book to the group of sitting children.

Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Race and Economy

If a company is serious about racial pay equity, what should it do?

by Marielle Segarra

Jun 9, 2020

There are concrete steps companies can take. To start, collect the data.

Companies can take steps to close the racial pay gap, starting with collecting the data.

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My Economy

Activism "is built into the DNA of our brand"

by Alli Fam

Jun 9, 2020

Nikoa Evans-Hendricks is a restaurateur and executive director of an entrepreneurs' coalition in Harlem. She talks about the role of Black-owned businesses.

Courtesy Nikoa Evans-Hendricks

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Who gets to decide if we are in a recession?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Jun 9, 2020

We have to take the word of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research, who have been making that call for a hundred years.

A man wears a face mask as he check his phone in Times Square on March 22, 2020 in New York City. - Coronavirus deaths soared across the United States and Europe on despite heightened restrictions as hospitals scrambled to find ventilators. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

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COVID-19

Pandemic may be a turning point for oil business, executives and analysts say

by Scott Tong

Jun 9, 2020

With carbon emissions and air pollution plummeting during the lockdown, experts question whether we'll return to our old driving and flying habits.

Oil storage tanks in Carson, California. The use of fossil fuels dropped during the lockdown, and supplies piled up.

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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"A moment of reckoning for the United States at home and abroad"

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam

Jun 9, 2020

The country's coalition-building power overseas has weakened as it focuses on crises at home, researcher Torrey Taussig says.

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