Imara Jones is the Economic Justice contributor for Colorlines.com. He served in the Clinton White House, where he worked on international trade policy, and was an executive at Viacom. Imara has a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics, and holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia in political science. He's a proud resident of Brooklyn U.S.A. 
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Why the Spying Scandal Is a Serious Racial Justice Issue
by Imara Jones on June 17 2013, 8:45AM
The routine, legal activities of blacks, Latinos and immigrants online make them uniquely likely to be targeted for monitoring.
Topics: National Security, Spying
How Bad 3rd Grade Math Legitimizes Injustice
by Imara Jones on June 6 2013, 8:54AM
Two months into sequestration, it’s proving a disaster. And the study that justified it still doesn’t add up.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
It’s Not a Housing Boom. It’s a Land Grab
by Imara Jones on May 30 2013, 7:00AM
This time, the runaway housing market is being fueled by Wall Street’s gobbling up properties. But the results will be just as bad for regular people as it was four years ago.
Topics: Economy
How Foreclosure Undermined Black and Brown Wealth
by Imara Jones on May 16 2013, 5:14PM
This foreclosure tidal wave is why wealth for blacks and Latinos is at the lowest level ever recorded. Housing is the leading wealth asset for these two communities.
Topics: /NOW
Marriage Is Great, But Many LGBT People of Color Need Job Safety
by Imara Jones on April 11 2013, 8:19AM
Despite aspirational images in popular media, the community’s real economic profile reveals the cost of perfectly legal job discrimination.
Topics: Economy, Gender & Sexuality
Obama’s Budgetary Dance With the Devil
by Imara Jones on April 5 2013, 1:51PM
The president’s budget negotiations go from bad to worse.
Another Gloomy Jobs Report, as D.C. Budget Battle Bumbles Along
by Imara Jones on April 5 2013, 12:00PM
Another example of the massive gap between reality and the discussion in the Beltway.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy, /NOW
What the U.S. Can Learn From Africa’s Booming Economy
by Imara Jones on April 5 2013, 9:51AM
The continent may have entered a new phase in its history. How? By focusing on healthy people and local investment.
Topics: Economy, Global Affairs
Obama Needs ‘Courage of His Convictions’ on Economic Justice, Too
by Imara Jones on March 28 2013, 6:00AM
The president officially acquiesced to the GOP’s economic hostage taking this week, again.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
by Imara Jones on March 20 2013, 8:23AM
Economic cheerleading of late would lead you to believe happy days are here again. Not for everybody.
Topics: Economy
Last Month’s Good Job Numbers Still Spell Trouble for Blacks and Latinos
by Imara Jones on March 8 2013, 10:08AM
Don’t break out the fireworks yet.
We’re Hooked on ‘Growth,’ But It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
by Imara Jones on March 8 2013, 8:24AM
Three more equitable alternatives to modern capitalism’s self-destructive values.
Topics: Economy
Sequestration and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to End Equity
by Imara Jones on March 1 2013, 8:46AM
A cruel chaos will unfold as billions of dollars in federal spending are chopped, starting today. But that chaos was always the real goal.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
What’s ‘Sequestration’ Mean in Real Life?
by Imara Jones on February 20 2013, 9:50AM
An explanation of the trillion-dollar budget cuts that are set to begin in a matter of days.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
The Simple Truth: You Can’t Have Growth and Austerity at Once
by Imara Jones on February 13 2013, 10:17AM
We’re two weeks away from yet another crop of austerity measures that make the sorts of ideas laid out in President Obama’s State of the Union simply impossible.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy, State of the Union
The State of Obama’s Presidency
by Imara Jones on February 8 2013, 8:57AM
In his annual address to Congress on Tuesday, the president will consider the state of our union. His first assessment must be of himself and his relationship to House Republicans.
Topics: Economy, Politics, State of the Union
What the Treasury Really Needs is People Power, Not Just Jack Lew
by Imara Jones on January 11 2013, 11:05AM
No one can argue that Lew isn’t infinitely qualified for the job. But given Lew’s nomination, we’re not likely to get a Treasury Secretary who fights for everyone’s economic opportunity.
Topics: /NOW
10 Things You Should Know About Slavery and Won’t Learn at ‘Django’
by Imara Jones on January 9 2013, 10:02AM
Slavery as revenge fantasy is a far cry from the ugly truth: Slavery as the economic engine that created the inequitable world in which we still live.
We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
by Imara Jones on January 3 2013, 9:45AM
This week’s fiscal cliff deal codifies the absurd notion that the super rich and the working poor are the same. In so doing, it prevents us from really fixing our racial caste system.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
We Can’t Fix Our Economy Without Confronting White Supremacy
by Imara Jones on December 21 2012, 10:06AM
Current fiscal policy has hardened a racial caste system in the U.S. And if we won’t name it, we can’t fix it.
Topics: Budget Cuts, Economy
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