Publications by Steven Pitts
To Work With Dignity: The Unfinished March Toward a Decent Minimum Wage
August 26, 2013 • Brief • By Sylvia A. Allegretto and Steven Pitts
Immediately after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bayard Rustin, deputy director of the…
The Great Recession, Jobless Recoveries and Black Workers
November 1, 2010 • Brief • By Sylvia A. Allegretto and Steven Pitts
Published in Focus Magazine, Vol. 38(1): 3-5. October/November, 2010. The economic downturn, which began in December 2007, aptly has been called the Great Recession. The trough of job losses occurred…
The End of the Recession?: How Blacks Might Fare in the Jobless Recovery
October 18, 2010 • Brief • By Sylvia A. Allegretto and Steven Pitts
Recently, there have been seemingly contradictory announcements concerning the economy. In September another 95,000 jobs were shed as the unemployment rate remained at 9.6%. Unemployment has been at least 9.5%…
The State of Black Workers before the Great Recession
July 23, 2010 • Brief • By Sylvia A. Allegretto and Steven Pitts
When first inaugurated, President Barack Obama worked to end the downward economic spiral and averted another Great Depression by restoring the health of the financial sector by injecting federal resources…