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Insight News February 9 - February 15, 2015
Vol. 42 No. 6 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • insightnews.com
Humphrey School’s Professor Samuel Myers gets prestigious NEA Westerfield Award
Myers researched social policy impact on the poor Dr. Samuel Myers, Jr., the Roy Wilkins professor of Human Relations and Social Justice at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, has received the Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr., Award by the National Economic Association (NEA). The award – NEA’s highest honor awarded to recognize distinguished service, outstanding scholarship and achievement of high standards of excellence – was presented at the organization’s annual meeting in January in Boston. Several past Westerfield Award recipients attended the event, including Myers’ father, Samuel Myers, Sr. The event also drew Nobel Laureate, Robert M. Solow, Myers’ dissertation advisor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It was a significant honor to have two Harvard classmates of Samuel Westerfield in the audience – Samuel Myers, Sr. and Robert Solow,” said Myers, Jr. “Both appreciate the connection to the University of Minnesota’s legendary economist, John D. Black, and the role of markets
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Dr. Samuel Myers with five past recipients of the Westerfield Award: L-R: William Darity, Jr - Samuel Dubois Cook Professor of Public Policy; David Swinton, PhD President, Benedict College in Columbia, SC; Margaret Simms, PhD - Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute; Robert Solow, Professor of Economics, Emeritus MIT (Myers, Jr.’s dissertation advisor at MIT); Samuel Myers, Jr - Professor, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice; Bernard Anderson - Whitney Young Professor of Management at the Wharton School; and Samuel Myers, Sr - Chairman of the Board - Minority Access, Inc (seated)
Bahamas tourism engages Black newspapers to attract African Americans
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Congressman Keith Ellison talking with taxpayers after the press conference at the Prepare + Prosper free tax preparation site in St. Paul.
Congressman Ellison, Lt. Gov. Smith promote 2015 Claim It! campaign
Left to right: Tracy Fischman, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith, Department of Revenue Commissioner Cynthia Bauerly, Meghan Barp, Senior Vice President of Community Impact, Greater Twin Cities United Way, and Stephanie Smith, EITC recipient.
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Minnesota leaders joined together to recognize the 40thanniversary of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the launch of the 2015 Claim It! campaign. National, state and local government leaders – including Congressman Keith Ellison, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith, and Minnesota Department of Revenue Commissioner Cynthia Bauerly – participated in a press conference at the St. Paul-based Prepare + Prosper last week.
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Black accountants association to help with tax returns The National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. (NABA, Inc.) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the AARP Foundation to promote the Tax-Aide program to multicultural low- and moderate-income
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NASSAU, Bahamas (NNPA) – A top Bahamas official praised the Black Press last week as essential to truthfully and creditably chronicling African American progress from one generation to the next. Philip E. Davis, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development, commended the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) for 75 years of excellence. “It goes without saying that your relevance, with time, is all the more important as the stories of struggle and sacrifice are passed on to each generation of Blacks,” he said in a speech at the NNPA mid-winter convention here. “This is essential so that
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Philip E. Davis, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development
Obediah H. Wilchcombe, Minister of Tourism
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