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Joint Center in Action

Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh was a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" on December 15 as part of a discussion about homeownership levels among people of color and how they have been affected by the mortgage crisis.

The Joint Center was well represented at forums sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus as part of its annual legislative conference [Photo galleries].

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was the speaker when the Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change met Sept. 23, 2009 [Photo gallery].

The Joint Center's Climate Change Commission held a training session Sept. 22, 2009, in preparation for an international meeting in Copenhagen [Photo gallery].

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioner Michael Copps addressed a luncheon sponsored by the Joint Center's Media and Technology Institute at the U.S. Capitol Sept. 22, 2009 [Photo gallery]. Media and Technology Vice President Nicol Turner-Lee summarizes Broadband Imperatives Report [Video: Part 1, Part 2].

FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn addressed a forum on broadband sponsored by the Joint Center's Media and Technology Institute at the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 21, 2009 [Photo gallery].

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Did You Know?

Did you know that only 29 percent of African American adults surveyed in an October-November 2005 Joint Center poll expected Social Security to be their major source of retirement income? Fewer of them (20 percent) expected an employer-sponsored pension plan to be their major source of income, and more (42 percent) expected that their major source of income would be their own retirement savings and investments.

Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, National Opinion Poll of African American Adults About Social Security and Wealth, 2005.