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Marketplace: Water contamination in Black communities doesn’t stop at Flint or Jackson

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Marketplace, June 19, 2023, Water contamination in Black communities doesn’t stop at Flint or Jackson In a lot of ways, the water crises in Flint, Michigan and Jackson, Mississippi, put lead-poisoned water on the map. And while the Biden administration has since earmarked more than $50 billion to replace lead pipes and build water treatment plants, a 2018 report by the Environmental […]

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Fighting For What’s Right: Alan Jennings On Fairness In An Unjust World

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We all look to champions to inspire us. The long, challenging and too-often frustrating work of making a better world can benefit tremendously from understanding the ground-level experiences of our colleagues.  It is therefore easy to recommend “The Pursuit of Fairness: Fighting for What’s Right in a World that’s so Wrong,” Alan Jennings’ autobiographical and

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NCRC To Host Regional Summit For Mountain West Community Development Leaders

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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) will host a regional summit in Denver September 26 – 27, 2023. The summit will bring together housing and community development leaders; faith-based organizations and fair lending advocates; financial institutions and environmental justice groups; as well as small business entrepreneurs, tribal leaders, public officials and academics to discuss and

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Maryland Matters: Advocates: A Maryland Community Reinvestment Act needed to invest in underserved communities

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Maryland Matters, June 20, 2023, Advocates: A Maryland Community Reinvestment Act needed to invest in underserved communities Another statute passed by Congress in 1977 was the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which is meant to ensure banks and other financial institutions meet investment needs in the low- and moderate-income communities around them. But two groups —

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American Banker: PayPal swoops into lending markets that banks abandoned

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American Banker, June 12, 2023, PayPal swoops into lending markets that banks abandoned PayPal and its rivals may be targeting areas previously served by community banks, but large banks have also been deemphasizing branches. Bank branches in general have had a net decline from more than 100,000 in 2009 to about 80,000 in 2022. And Self Financial reports that branches are

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Bloomberg: Reforms to Home Appraisal Bias Target Algorithms and Tech

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Bloomberg, June 12, 2023, Reforms to Home Appraisal Bias Target Algorithms and Tech National Community Reinvestment Coalition President Jesse Van Tol said in a press statement that the new AVM rule was “welcome news.” “As the financial industry experiments with powerful tools at the bleeding edge of technology’s new reach, our government has a duty

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Axios: Exclusive: EPA administrator talks AI, environmental justice

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Axios, June 12, 2023, Exclusive: EPA administrator talks AI, environmental justice Driving the news: Before heading to a Silicon Valley clean energy summit Thursday, Regan stopped by Google’s campus to talk with chief sustainability officer Kate Brandt about tech innovation and how the private sector is pushing the envelope on equity and climate action. He spoke with Axios after the

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Quartz: Could instituting a four-day workweek be a feminist act?

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Quartz, June 13, 2023, Could instituting a four-day workweek be a feminist act? Reception has been largely favorable. Workers report improved work-life balance, less stress and burnout, and higher productivity. But evidence has pointed to one other surprising outcome: The four-day workweek may also improve gender parity. Men with a four-day week reported spending 22%

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NCRC, University Of Michigan Receive National Institute Of Health Grant To Study Redlining and Health

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The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $3 million research grant to researchers at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the University of Richmond to create and harmonize important data exploring the association of structural racism with health in the United States.

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