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Interim Director Mick Mulvaney requested zero additional funds for the CFPB in the second quarter of fiscal year 2018.
American Banker: ‘I am not trying to starve the agency,’ CFPB chief reiterates Read More »
Gentrification has become a more capacious idea lately. The poor are still gentrification’s victims, but in this new meaning, the harm is not rent increases and displacement — it’s something psychic, a theft of pride and an appropriation of culture.
New York Times: When gentrification isn’t about housing Read More »
AmericanBanker, January 17, 2018: Mulvaney launches public review of entire CFPB The CFPB said it plans to publish a series of requests for information in the Federal Register in the coming weeks asking for the public to weigh in on the agency’s enforcement, supervision, rulemaking, market monitoring and education activities. “In this New Year, and under
AmericanBanker: Mulvaney launches public review of entire CFPB Read More »
Robert Zdeneck’s new book (co-authored with Dee Walsh), “Navigating Community Development: Harnessing Comparative Advantages to Create Strategic Partnerships” how the community development field has evolved over the last 50 years. Read Shelterforce’s book review!
Shelterforce: Honing the “scale-up” of community development organizations Read More »
For years, banks have been fighting these requirements to lend to underprivileged people — and President Trump is listening as he continues his war on regulation. The irony is that these rules benefit the same “blue-collar people Donald Trump maintains he represents.
CNNMoney: Trump may weaken ‘outdated’ rules that force banks to lend to the poor Read More »
Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, which manages $6 trillion in investments, told business leaders that if they want to do business with BlackRock moving forward, they’re going to need to contribute to society in addition to making a profit. It’s an enormous step from one of the world’s most influential money managers.
Impact Alpha: BlackRock just did one thing that changed the game for anyone who invests Read More »
The most significant attempt to loosen rules imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is underway in Congress as the Senate looks to pass legislation within the next month that would roll back restrictions on swaths of the finance industry.
New York Times: Democrats add momentum to G.O.P. push to loosen banking rules Read More »
A $33 million dollar grant for undocumented immigrant graduates of US high schools with DACA status to go to college.
The Dream: Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos to fund 1,000 college scholarships for DREAMERS Read More »
The Trump administration said Thursday that it would get poor people to work by letting state governments deny them Medicaid if they don’t have a job. The new policy would be attempting to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
New York Times: The Trump plan to hurt the poor by pretending to help them Read More »
All signs point to Republicans next move– tear apart the social safety net.
Vanity Fair: With tax cuts in the bag, the White House ramps up it’s war on the poor Read More »
Undermining another Obama-era initiative, the Trump administration plans to delay enforcement of a federal housing rule that requires communities to address patterns of racial residential segregation.
NYT: Trump Administration Postpones an Obama Fair-Housing Rule Read More »
The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.
While poor Americans are dying earlier, the rich are enjoying unprecedented longevity.
VOX: What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality Read More »
Pleas for the entertainer to run for president point to a split over whether to treat Donald Trump as a dangerous anomaly or a particularly extreme Republican. She could be at once the Democratic Trump and also an anti-Trump.
The Atlantic: What the Oprah boomlet means for democrats Read More »
