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OAKLAND, Calif. -  Today, the Bay Area Equity Atlas released an analysis of essential workers in the nine-county Bay Area region, finding that Latinx, Black, Filipinx, women of color, and immigrants are disproportionately represented in this workforce. Essential workers — grocery clerks, farmworkers, bus drivers, construction workers, janitors, healthcare workers, delivery drivers, and more —...

Women of color sit at the intersection of race and gender disparities—they should be at the center of policy solutions

24/7 Wall Street reviewed 2017 data from the U.S. Census Bureau to identify 11 distinct groups of Americans who are more likely to live in poverty.

LGBT refugees escaping violence, discrimination, and abuse in their home countries, often find more of the same upon arrival in Europe.

The women, ages 23 to 64, accused Amazon of favoring men over women in career growth, allowing supervisors to denigrate them, and retaliating after they complained. Two plaintiffs are Black, one is Latina, one is Asian-American and one is white. They filed their lawsuits in federal courts in Arizona, California, Delaware and Amazon's hometown of Seattle.

Harris will not only be the first Black, and first female, vice president. She's also the first Indian American and the first Asian American elected to the office.

Kamala Harris, who on Saturday became America's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect, represents a new face of political power after an election all about who wields power and how they use it.

The United States must reckon with the racism built into its housing system in order to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to build wealth.