Americans are demanding a reckoning. Incidents of police brutality and structural inequities that have caused the pandemic to hit people of color especially hard are sparking calls for racial justice. The precarious conditions endured by poorly paid frontline workers who have continued to stay on the job during the pandemic have generated calls for economic justice. Each of these forms of injustice has distinct drivers, but they amplify each other and often fall hardest on the same people. As Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded us, economic and racial justice are inexorably linked.
Equality in the U.S. Starts with Better Jobs
Six steps business leaders can take right now.
August 17, 2020
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Summary.
The pandemic’s impact on frontline workers and recent incidents of police brutality have highlighted the urgent need to provide good jobs for people of color. For too long, millions of Americans have been left behind with low wages, few benefits, unstable schedules, and lack of respect and dignity. And for too long, American employers have assumed these conditions as an inevitability of doing business rather than a deliberate choice. Based on her research, the author offers six steps that business leaders should take to help bring about economic and racial justice. They will help their firms competitiveness as well.