NPR, March 24, 2021, Asian Grandmother Who Smacked Her Attacker With A Board Donates Nearly $1 Million Xiao Zhen Xie, the 75-year-old woman who was punched by a white man in San Francisco — and then fought back by smacking him with a board — will not keep the nearly $1 million that has been […]
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Finextra, March 24, 2021, Robinhood files for IPO Controversial stock trading app Robinhood has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The company has been at the centre of a battle between activist retail investors and hedge funds shorting stock in companies such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment. Robinhood
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The New York Times, March 20, 2021, Opinion: How to Collect $1.4 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes When the federal government started withholding income taxes from workers’ paychecks during World War II, the innovation was presented as a matter of fairness, a way to ensure that everyone paid. Irving Berlin wrote a song for the Treasury Department:
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Grist, March 24, 2021, Zoned out: One woman’s half-century fight to desegregate Berkeley When Dorothy Walker was looking for a place to live in Berkeley, California, it didn’t take her very long to learn that half the city was off-limits to her family. It was 1950, and the rules were clear: “Because my husband was
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ABC News, March 24, 2021, Kim Janey being sworn in as 1st Black, 1st woman mayor of Boston Throughout its 200-year history, Boston has been governed by mayors they have all been white men — mainly of Irish American or Italian American decent. That history changes Wednesday when Kim Janey is sworn in as mayor. Kim Janey
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USA Today, March 24, 2021, ‘Inequality still exists’: Congresswoman to hold hearing on pay gap on Equal Pay Day In 2021, pay disparities and discrimination still exist between men and women, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., wants people to know that Equal Pay Day is not one of celebration. “This day marks the extra time it takes
NPR, March 22, 2021, With Stronger Democratic Support, D.C. Statehood Fight Returns To Capitol Hill Thirty years after Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton first introduced a bill for Washington, D.C., statehood, she returns to Capitol Hill to do it again — this time with the broadest support for the cause to date. “We’ve gotten off of
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The New York Times, March 20, 2021, Opinion: Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism John, who is Black, and his wife, who is Japanese American, purchased a family home in a suburb of Atlanta in 2004. When he was interviewed for my book, John — who asked to be identified only by his first
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NPR, March 19, 2021, Men’s And Women’s NCAA March Madness Facilities, Separate And Unequal, Spark Uproar On Thursday, Stanford University sports performance coach Ali Kershner posted a photo comparing the weight room set-up for the NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournaments. While the set-up for the men’s teams included a number of power racks with Olympic
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NAFCU has joined with several other trade groups in repeating concerns to the Treasury Department and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) over recent amendments to the government-sponsored enterprises’ (GSEs) Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements (PSPAs).
Andy Hill discovered he was house poor soon after he bought his first home in 2004.
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A District of Columbia federal judge now has arguments from both sides in the dispute over whether a new rule changing how mortgage data is collected is “arbitrary and capricious.”
Set against the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles, the first season of THEM, subtitled Covenant, examines the impact of discriminatory housing practices like restrictive covenants and redlining that actively shut out minority communities from majority-white areas.
ABA Banking Journal, January 19,2021, Your Fair and Responsible Banking Program in 2021 and Beyond Here are ways for compliance professionals to promote equity and financial inclusion while building a robust fair lending program and demonstrating compliance. In July 2020, a study was released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition regarding Paycheck Protection Program loans that
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Strengthening and expanding the reach of the Community Reinvestment Act and duties to serve throughout the financial sector has to be at the forefront of policy questions about racial equity, the racial wealth gap and expanding financial inclusion for lower income communities.
