Month: August 2020
Talk about unintended impacts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html
Low-wage mothers who want to become suburban moms
Move to PROSPER deals with long term structural barriers to low-wage families living in opportunity neighborhoods. For black families, it also overcomes structure racism that arises out of the history of racial zoning and mortgage lending that laid the foundations for our current regional housing and racial residence patterns. See this story in the American Prospect–Low-wage mothers of color who want to become suburban moms.
Bias in Algorithms
I’ve been reading and watching lots of pieces on implicit bias, racial discrimination and responses. I’m going to start sharing them here.
If you’ve wondered what implicit bias has to do with STEM, watch this Ted Talk about biased algorithms and their spread.
Or wrongly accused due to facial recognition NYT Podcast.