Trustee Margaret Simms ’67 Appears on NPR’s “Marketplace”
Trustee Margaret Simms ’67 appeared on NPR’s “Marketplace” on Jan. 16, discussing the economy and specifically higher unemployment rates in minority communities. In the piece, broadcast on the observed holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, Simms notes that many minority workers were hit hard by layoffs in the fields of construction and manufacturing (black males) and retail (black women). “It’s the old cliché — last hired, first fired. Only in this case as we come into the recovery, it’s first fired, last hired,” she said. Simms is a Fellow and Director of The Urban Institute’s Low Income Working Families Project.
Trustee Margaret Simms ’67 appeared on NPR’s “Marketplace” on Jan. 16, discussing the economy and specifically higher unemployment rates in minority communities. In the piece, broadcast on the observed holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, Simms notes that many minority workers were hit hard by layoffs in the fields of construction and manufacturing (black males) and retail (black women). “It’s the old cliché — last hired, first fired. Only in this case as we come into the recovery, it’s first fired, last hired,” she said. Simms is a Fellow and Director of The Urban Institute’s Low Income Working Families Project.