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Jon Jeter

Jon Jeter is the author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People, and the co-author, with Robert Pierre, of A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama’s “Postracial” America. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief in southern Africa and South America, and former producer at “This American Life.”

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Feb 25, 2019
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Op-Ed
Politics & Elections

Democratic Candidates Say They Support Reparations. Do They Mean It?

Many Black voters are questioning the sincerity of candidates’ promises.
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Jon Jeter,
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April 12, 2019
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Voters register at a polling station in Manhattan of New York, the United States, on November 6, 2018.
News Analysis
Racial Justice

Flat Broke, Black Voters Want More Than Just Another Black President

Black voters increasingly view Black political leadership as complicit in covering up Wall Street crimes.
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Jon Jeter,
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February 27, 2019
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