WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The Center for Economic and Policy Research issued the following news release: Although Black employment is currently the highest in a generation, things look different at the state level. A fresh analysis (https://cepr.net/report/black-employment-rate/) by CEPR's Director of Race and Economic Justice Algernon Austin (https://cepr.net/staff-member/algernon-austin/) finds that the states with the largest prime-age Black jobs deficits were New York, Illinois, and Michigan.  more PR

NEWARK, Delaware, June 21 -- The International Literacy Association issued the following news release on June 20, 2024: The International Literacy Association (ILA) announced this week the winning authors of its 2024 Children's and Young Adult Book Awards--a program reserved for new authors who have published only their first or second book and already demonstrate "exceptional and unusual promise" for the field. Themes across the winning books include friendship, identity, cultural heritage, e more PR