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“There are more than 1,000 ATMs in New York City that KeyBank debit cardholders can use for free, including over 100 in each borough, and it is entirely unacceptable that the bank failed to communicate those options to unemployed New Yorkers,” said state Department of Labor spokeswoman Deanna Cohen.

The collapse of politics and governance leaves no other option.

“The Trump Administration would prefer to ignore the disproportionate impact this crisis is having on communities of color,” said Sen. Patty Murray.

If protecting Black people’s lives from blatant false reports that may endanger them is not big enough fish to fry, what is? Social-media rage is not an unalloyed good. It has its excesses. But until there is sufficient lawful deterrence for this particular crime, I’m not ready to condemn this mob or this fury.

There are more communities living in poverty across U.S. metropolitan areas than there were four decades ago — and the neighborhoods that were already poor have even less now.

The head of JPMorgan Chase has long been hailed as a wise man. The pandemic has shown the weaknesses of his brand of liberalism.

Many families are turning to community colleges amid the pandemic, but the schools aren’t equipped to handle an influx of students.

For now, the lack of aid for renters has landlords bracing for a wave of missed payments.

“All recessions exacerbate existing inequalities by race and ethnicity — and always hit black and Hispanic workers harder — but this one will be worse,” Heidi Shierholz, policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, told The Washington Post at the time. “It will be an absolute nightmare.”

Homes with a significant number of Black and Latino residents have been twice as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly White.

Some Asian American business owners question how they will survive the crisis.

Democrats and consumer advocates were also fiercely critical of the OCC’s original proposal with the FDIC, which would replace the current, more-subjective CRA framework used to rate banks’ compliance with a single ratio meant to capture the volume and frequency of loans to low-income areas.

“We’re already in crisis and then this came around. And we’re like walking zombies,” Lopez said in an interview with Bloomberg Law. “We don’t know whether to pay rent, to eat or go homeless.”

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

KEY POINTS
– Magic Johnson, the CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises, partnered with MBE Capital Partners to offer $100 million in loans to minority- and women-owned companies.
– The funds will be distributed through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.