Prof. Orfield Quoted in Quartz on Racial Disparities in Urban Economic Booms

Professor Myron Orfield, director of the Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, was quoted in Quartz in an article examining racial disparities in economic advantages in urban areas across the United States. The article cites research produced by the Institute that found that areas that underwent a strong economic expansion between 2000 and 2016 were less likely to have Black residents and more likely to have a surge in white residents. “The dry tinder [for the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd] was racial and social inequality,” added Orfield.