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INEQUALITY

LETTERS
MBTA must restore crucial bus lines
Despite reversing course on cuts, many crucial MBTA busroutes are still without service.

Kimberly Atkins
Producer, actor, filmmaker, and author Tyler Perry is 2,674 on Forbes' list of billionaires.
Why the racial wealth gap hitting Black American billionaires matters
The inequality represented even at the highest echelons of affluence reflects how a dearth of Black super-wealth can have a ripple effect on the rest of society.

Michelle Wu and Sheldon Lloyd
Roberto Dos Reis prepares a takeout order at Soleil in Roxbury, in January.
To tackle racial injustice in city contracting, start with food
Here’s how Boston can ensure universal access to nutritious food while supercharging its economic recovery and closing the racial wealth gap.

LETTERS
A METCO school bus outside Bedford High School on the first day of school in September.
Decades-old problem of segregated schools persists
How about envisioning a world in which our primary intention is to ensure that our public education system is a quality public good for all?

Tamara Rushovich and Sarah S. Richardson
A woman is administered the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine by a medical technician in Bates Memorial Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky.
The intersection of Black women, COVID, and death rates
The narrative about sex differences and COVID-19 overshadows alarming facts.

EDITORIAL
A report from the MBA urges Governor Charlie Baker to adopt new guidelines that would prioritize clemency for victims of domestic violence, those convicted at a very young age, and those who are now elderly, frail, or chronically ill.
State parole board, clemency process need reform
The Massachusetts Bar Association makes the case for more “justice” at the end of the criminal justice pipeline.

IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM
Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.
The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening
The surge in hate crimes is feeding a new spirit of solidarity. But it’s also renewing a longstanding question for the movement: How do disparate sets of people unite without flattening their substantial differences?

LETTERS
A woman walks past a sign displayed at a CD One Price Cleaners in Schaumburg, Ill., in early February.
A laudable spirit of giving stirs but can’t compensate for gross US inequities
We would not need to dig as deep into our own pockets if our country had not let social spending and infrastructure deteriorate.

LETTERS
Iesha Sekou, second from right, founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources, leads young men to "Occupy the Corner" to reach potential areas of conflict and gun violence on July 18, 2020, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York.
We fail to view gun violence through a racial equity lens
To achieve lasting reductions, we need a community-led public health approach focused on the root causes of violence.

Joseph E. Stiglitz
President Joe Biden Biden's infrastructure plan, part of his “Build Back Better” package, would boost clean power.
Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for tax increases, and that’s a good thing
His planned investments, accompanied by well-designed taxes, could unleash a period of growth that we have not seen for a long time.