“Workers and families across the South deserve an economic model that centers and empowers [them],” says Childers. Southerners from all backgrounds will need to come together to demand policies that create a new economic development model. www.epi.org/publication/... 🧵3/3

Southern policymakers leave workers with lower wages and a fraying safety net: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Three

For at least the last 40 years, pay and job quality for workers across the South has been inferior compared to other regions—thanks to the racist and anti-worker Southern economic development model.&n...