by homeinc | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted to help bolster the economy in an attempt to pull the country out of the Great Depression. However, this act excluded tip-based jobs and other work predominantly held by black workers, servers, shoe shiners, domestic...
by homeinc | Jul 14, 2021 | Blog
This week’s racial justice blog focuses on the Social Security Act. The Social Security Act of 1935 excluded farmworkers, as well as domestic workers from receiving Social Security benefits. These workers were predominantly Black, and thus Black Americans are...
by homeinc | Jun 16, 2021 | Blog
The third racial wealth gap policy we will be examining in this series, is the National Housing Act of 1934. This law allowed policies to guarantee federally-backed loans to white Americans, and legally allowed companies to refuse loans to Black Americans, or others...
by homeinc | May 12, 2021 | Blog
The second policy that we will discussing in our Racial Wealth Gap campaign is the Land Seizures policy. The Land Seizures policy was enacted in 1865, and still disproportionately affects Black Americans today. This policy allowed white Americans to declare Black...
by homeinc | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog
Last month we began a blog campaign discussing the effects of racially motivated policy in Des Moines, today we will be focusing on our first policy in this series. Andrew Johnson’s Land Policies and Sharecropping: “After the Civil War, only 30,000 African...
