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The State We're In: Author Alasdair Roberts, Racial Bias

Season 9 Episode 44 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Author Alasdair Roberts, Racial Bias in the Pioneer Valley, Motherhood Penalty

UMass Amherst Director of Public Policy Alasdair Roberts on his book, "Can Government Do Anything Right?". The Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley's Waleska Lugo-DeJesús discusses the ways to overcome systemic racism in the Pioneer Valley. UMass School of Public Policy & Sociology Prof. Joya Misra discusses the "motherhood penalty," a wage gap between women with kids and women without kids.

03/01/2019

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The State We're In: Author Alasdair Roberts, Racial Bias

Season 9 Episode 44 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

UMass Amherst Director of Public Policy Alasdair Roberts on his book, "Can Government Do Anything Right?". The Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley's Waleska Lugo-DeJesús discusses the ways to overcome systemic racism in the Pioneer Valley. UMass School of Public Policy & Sociology Prof. Joya Misra discusses the "motherhood penalty," a wage gap between women with kids and women without kids.

03/01/2019

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