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Joshua Weitz

  • Research Associate, Academic-Industry Research Network​

Joshua Weitz is a research associate at the Academic-Industry Research Network

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African Americans in Tech: What the EEO-1 Numbers Reveal

Article By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz | Feb 22, 2022

EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?

Equality Denied: Tech and African Americans

Paper Working paper | By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz | Feb 2022

EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?

The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class

Paper Working Paper | By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz | May 2021

How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it

"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility

Article By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz | Jan 5, 2021

How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.