Daily Blog Round-Up 6/11/07

We wanted to first give a shoutout to Racialicious, which is fast becoming one of our favorite blogs for their great reporting and abundance of good links to reporting on issues of racial justice.

• Immigrants in the USA Blog reports on the Board of
  Alderman’s Connecticut decision to administer identification cards for undocumented
  workers in New Haven. The cards were issued primarily to allow undocumented workers to open bank accounts, as current habits of carrying
  large sums of money on their person make undocumented workers targets for crime.  The decision to help protect undocumented workers is a positive step taken that underlines the empathy needed by government officials to help
  undocumented workers succeed in society. Too often, their plight is overlooked, but with creative solutions such
  as this one, all people will be given the opportunity to prosper.
• Racialicious reports on a recent George Washington
  University School of Medicine study showing that white children were more likely than children of color to be admitted to a hospital for medical conditions that could be
  treated at home, highlighting yet again that disparities exist not only in access to care, but in the quality of care that one receives based on one's race.
• The New York Times featured an interesting reflection on the
  wealth inequalities and increasing gap between the rich and poor. Counter to many economists’ predictions, the amount of wealth going to the rich and super rich is increasing at an unprecedented rate. According to the Congressional Budget
  Office’s data, in 2004, while households in the lowest quintile of the country
  were making 2 percent more than they were in 1979, the top quartile had increased their income by
  63%. These figures parallel the State of Opportunity in America study (pdf), which also adds that much of the discrepancies can be explained by race.  White households gained more in real income
  than African-American and Hispanic households between 1974 to 2004.