Algernon Austin

Algernon Austin, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, has conducted research and writing on issues of race and racial inequality for over 20 years. His primary focus has been on the intersection of race and the economy. 

The Iran War is NOT About Nuclear Weapons

The GOP is Defunding the Tax Policy, Making America Great for Rich Tax Cheats

How to Make Housing More Affordable

It’s Time to Slash US Military Spending by Half

Is AI Born Biased?

Reduce Inequality to Address Affordability

Do “Soft Skills” Explain the Low Employment Rate for Black Men?

Trump Accounts Will Increase Wealth Inequality

Trump Get Spectacularly Richer, While Putting the Country on a Path to Poverty

Does the Trump Administration Care About the Most Common Victims of Hate Crimes?

Can Anyone Stop Trump From Waging a Senseless War?

The Black Jobs Deficit Cost Black America $87 Billion in 2025

How the Affordable Rental Crisis is Harming Hispanics

Does the Trump Administration Care About the Most Common Victims of Hate Crimes?

If Trump Cared About Crime, He Would Have Kept the Office of Gun Violence Prevention

The GENIUS Act Provides Profits for the Crypto Industry, Financial Risk for Everyone Else

Is Black America the Leading Edge of a Coming Trump Recession?

Trump Sabotages Clean Energy as Power Demand and Outages Increase

The Senate Voted to Make Trump Richer and the Financial System Weaker and More Corrupt

How GOP Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Asian-Americans

DOGE is the Most Wasteful Federal Agency

Government by Billionaires, for Billionaires

Crypto: the Rich and the Criminal Get Richer

Mass Deportation: a Bad Idea for the US Economy

The White Racial Preference in the Employment of College Football Head Coaches

Gun Violence Lowers Academic Achievement Especially for Black Children

Latino Immigrants Do Many of the Most Dangerous Jobs

Haitian Americans: a Socioeconomic Snapshot

The Paris Olympics Illustrated the Power of Racial Equity and Diversity

Governors Need to Do More to Protect Their Low-Income Residents from Climate Change, Especially in the South

Many Asian American Renters Are Struggling to Pay for Housing

US Affordable Rental Housing Policy Either Doesn’t Make Any Sense or Is Working as Intended

We Need More State Climate Corps Jobs Open to More Young People

Conservative Politicians Choose Higher Child Poverty Rates

Subsidized Employment Can Reduce Crime and Gun Violence Among Black Men

Racial Segregation and Gun Violence in Black Communities

The Labor Market for Black Workers is Good, But Not Quite as Good as Some Claim

Asian Americans Have the Lowest Incomes in Mississippi; Highest in New Jersey

Children and Youth Nearly Twice as Likely to Die in the South as New England

The Fed Alone Cannot Create Black Full Employment

When the WPA Created 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers

60 Years of No Progress on Black-White Unemployment Equity

How Poverty Correlates With an Increase in Gun Violence

Why Black People (and Everyone Else) Should Avoid Crypto

Only Radical Changes Will Make Rents Affordable

Black Children are Disproportionately Harmed by Extremist Gun Rights Policies in the US

A Brief Look at Low-Income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

How Far Are We from Martin Luther King’s Dream of Equal of Opportunity?

The Link Between Gun Violence and Economic Hardship in Black Communities

How US Guns Destabilize Latin America and Fuel the Refugee Crisis