The Charlotte Post Life! THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021 SECTION B SARAH STRIPP | SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES The number of moms with health coverage participating in the Magnolia Mother's Trust, a guaranteed-income program, went up by a quarter during the program. Push for permanent DUKE UNIVERSITY Duke University computer science professor Nicki Washington is a Johnson C. Smith University graduate. She leads the Alli- ance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education. policies to support JCSU grad widens opportunities in lower-income families By Katie Fleischer unrestricted cash, policies like the there's so much to get. The computer science MS. MAGAZINE child tax credit and guaranteed in- clothes, the shoes, the school While the pandemic didn't start come seek to create an economy supplies. I swear that list gets By Ashley Mahoney economic inequalities in the that works for everyone, including longer every year." [email protected] United States, it's certainly respon- marginalized communities. However, Biden’s expansion of Nicki Washington Ph.D. is taking a different ap- sible for exacerbating them, in- President Joe Biden has already the CTC is not permanent (al- proach to broadening participation in computer cluding race and gender taken an important step towards though a majority of voters want science. disparities in unemployment, making a more equitable economy it to continue): The monthly pay- Washington, a Duke University pro- working conditions and poverty a reality: His American Rescue ments started in July and will end fessor of the practice in computer levels. Almost two-thirds of Amer- Plan includes a child tax credit in December, and parents will get science, and colleague Shaundra Daily, icans have been living paycheck to that now provides monthly pay- the other half of their annual professor of the practice in electrical paycheck during the pandemic, ments of up to $250 per child ages amount when they file their 2021 and computer engineering and com- and women have been forced to 6-17 and $300 per child under 6 taxes. In response, moms across puter science, earned $10 million from bear the brunt of additional chal- for the 88% of families with kids the country are calling for Biden to the National Science Foundation to lenges like childcare and other do- that qualify. Already, struggling push for a more permanent policy create strategies to increase entry, re- mestic work that limit their ability families say these payments have to support all low-income families. Daily tention, and course completion for stu- to work outside the home. been life changing. “If I could talk to President dents from marginalized groups. In order to help Americans re- “To get the child tax credit pay- Biden, I would tell him that he Funding will be provided over five years to establish cover from the pandemic’s eco- ments that started coming last should make the child tax credit the Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Educa- nomic fallout, feminists are calling month has been a huge help,” permanent, because so many tion, or AIICE. for new federal policies that would wrote one mom, I’esha (last name people are still unemployed and Their projected impact is 525,000 high school stu- help working moms, low-income withheld), in an essay for Ms. "I the pandemic is not over,” wrote dents and 35,000 college undergraduates; 7,000 women and women of color in was able to use the first payment I’esha. “And people need help high school computer science teachers; 2,000 post- particular. By offering the flexibil- in July to get prepared and buy my even without a pandemic going Please see |2B secondary computer science faculty and staff; 5,000 ity and efficiency that come with children their school things- SUPPORT teaching assistants and 500 computing departments. AIICE will combine social science and computer science to improve student and educator under- standing and knowledge of identity, support com- puter science educators and leaders in cultivating academic culture that are more inclusive and ad- dress policy-driven changes to computer science education. Jesse Jackson speaks about COVID battle “We see things like facial recognition technology, By Stacy M. Brown shots,” Jackson said in the surveillance technologies and medical algorithms NATIONAL NEWSPAPER telephone call from North- that disproportionately affect Black people for exam- PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION western Memorial Hospital. ple,” said Washington, a Johnson C. Smith University While he and his wife re- “My wife did not receive graduate. “Students don’t know this. We’re not teach- main hospitalized in a Chi- the vaccine because she ing this in computer science, but there’s so much cago hospital after positive has pre-existing conditions work in social science that is talking about the ways Covid tests, the Rev. Jesse that were of concern.” in which the work we create is harmful and it’s harm- Jackson told the Black Jackson, a Greenville, ful to people based on different identities. It could Press that he remains vig- South Carolina native and be race, it could be gender, it can be sexuality as well ilant in fighting for free- graduate of North Carolina or class. We need to start teaching students this.” dom, justice, and equality. A&T State University main- Washington said she understood the impact of In an exclusive telephone tained the importance of these practices to a degree as a Black woman but at- conversation from his hos- vaccination, noting that NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION tending a liberal arts college like JCSU meant taking pital bed on Sunday, the there are more stringent The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife Jacqueline both contracted more social science courses in order to graduate. civil rights leader ex- variants of the coronavi- the coronavirus. AIICE poses the question of what educators can do pressed his ongoing sup- rus. He said he and Jacque- Push Coalition, revealed CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis to better prepare students to rewrite the narrative. port for vaccinations while line are receiving the “best the positive tests and hos- Jr., a longtime friend and “We all know that there's a lack of representation explaining why his wife, of care.” pitalization. The call in- comrade in the fight for of people who identify as Black or indigenous, etc.,” Jacqueline, had not re- The telephone call came cluded National civil rights. Washington said. “This work is also saying we have ceived the vaccine. just one day after his or- Newspaper Publishers As- Both disciples of Martin Please see JCSU GRAD|2B “I have had both my ganization, the Rainbow sociation President and Please see REV. JESSE | 2B «RIDES Hyundai’s economic Venue veers toward the affordability lane By Winfred Cross day-to-day journey. zoom-zoom to get you in The Venue may be short SPECIAL TO THE POST Actually, Hyundai clas- and out of traffic without on power, but it has a great sifies the Venue as an extra white knuckles but it takes amount of equipment, de- The average price paid small SUV. It can hold five careful planning or a very pending on your model. for a new car in the United people but four would be heavy foot on the gas. It My test car was the Denim States is $41,000. 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