The federal comptroller of the currency took a look around Crosstown Concourse and Smoky City/Klondike to its north Friday, March 6, and then mounted a Beale Street defense of changes to the 43-year-old Community Reinvestment Act.
According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, from 2009-2018 CRA qualified lending in Greater Hartford resulted in $8.2 billion in mortgages to LMI homeowners or in LMI neighborhoods, and $1.9 billion in small business loans in LMI neighborhoods.
He’s proposing to have neighborhood schools serve as community hubs to help improve economic opportunity through a focus on family services, education, economics and health.
When entering the exhibition, visitors immediately face a sculpture called “Dying Indian,” from around 1904 and by Charles Cary Rumsey, a piece that Gibson says is one of many Western bronzes made around that time, by non-Native people, to portray the decline and end of Native American civilizations.
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“There are so many ways that Chuck Trimble contributed to Native journalism, and Indian Country, that it’s hard to narrow it down,” said Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today. “Chuck was a brilliant cartoonist. He could have made a career out of doing just that.”
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The health sector and others have made significant progress in addressing upstream impacts on health like neighborhood vitality, good jobs, good schools, healthy food options and more. It would be tragic to lose that momentum.
Developers already are reaching out to homeowners facing damage in North Nashville, offering to buy up their ravaged properties.
Bryant, along with numerous government and banking officials, visited Memphis to gain insights on ways to revise the Community Reinvestment Act – which encourages financial institutions to do business in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods.
The goal is to have separating employees leave or retire by June 6, though the agency may delay departures for some depending on mission or knowledge transfer needs.
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No matter which Democratic candidate ends up receiving the nomination, it’s a win for the country, says Diane Yentel, executive director of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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A new House report finds that the San Francisco-based bank was slow to correct its cultural problems even after paying more than $1 billion in fines.
If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.
Globally, women would have earned $10.9 trillion.
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“Moments of crisis are important times to look at our values and see where there are gaps in our current policies,” says Julie Kashen, senior policy advisor at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which is organizing domestic workers such as house cleaners, nannies and home care aides.
The Modest Home Choices Act is part of a legislative package a Maryland delegate is calling “Homes for All.” The suite also includes a proposal to bolster renters’ rights and create the state’s first mixed-income public housing program.
The Massachusetts senator’s legacy will outlive her campaign.
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