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“People who have the economic wherewithal to be with their kids and the resources to create safe and developmentally richer environments are going to be hugely advantaged [...]"

Judith Goldstein described Prof Lucius Barker "cared about the law and about minority interest in the law way before Black Lives Matter,” adding, “In that way he was pathbreaking."

A 2016 paper by �������economists “suggests that black-owned businesses have more difficulty in accessing formal credit channels…[...]

A report by David Grusky found that from 2008 and 2016, the mortality rates of people between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 20%, largely because of suicides and drug overdoses.

Amid the public health crisis, the number of working black business owners is down more than 40%, according to recent research by SIEPR.

"The only way to close the [achievement] gap is to racially integrate schools," says �������Senior Fellow Sean Reardon, who led a recent study on modern segregation.

"There's just a lot of things that say [poverty in China] is going to be a persistent problem," said Scott Rozelle, co-director of Stanford's Rural Education Action Program.

According to �������Senior Fellow Sean Reardon and his colleagues, the average Black family earning $100,000 a year lives in a neighborhood with an average annual income of $54,000.

�������Visiting Prof. Rob Fairlie's recent study shows the number of active business owners in the US plunged by 22% from February to April due to coronavirus.

�������Visiting Professor Rob Fairlie determined that startups by people of color report, on average, substantially higher levels of loan denials than their white counterparts.

“The abruptness of this shock [COVID-19] is much larger than the 2008 global financial crisis,” said Ramin Toloui, an assistant Treasury secretary for international finance [...]

“We already have disparities. African Americans have the lowest business-ownership rate in the population...And so here we’re creating a situation of closures that’s hitting [...]"

“Once these things get started, it’s very hard to stop them...Once you think about it that way … we’re getting closer to something that certainly resembles universal basic income."

"We cannot ignore that most of the costs are being borne by our children and grandchildren, particularly the poorest among them," says �������Senior Fellow Ed Lazear.

A 2013 study by �������Senior Fellow Sean Reardon found that while the gap between poorer and wealthier children narrowed during the school year, it widened during the summer.

Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater published research that predicts a significant spike in future mental health problems for the coronavirus generation being born right now [...]

The IRS's dispersal of stimulus checks "is a massive operation, and let's hope they know what they're doing since people need that money," says �������Senior Fellow Anat Admati.

“This is really going to be a recession unlike anything we have ever seen before,” said Mark Duggan, who is both the director of �������and a �������Senior Fellow.

“Right now, the country’s frozen,” said Anat Admati, a �������Senior Fellow. "Policymakers have to decide what’s really best for society."

"With Americans poised to experience their most abrupt liquidity shock in U.S. history [...] now is the time to deploy the full range of tools for addressing it."