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The Medical Care Blog, January 4, 2024, Weathering And Its Impacts on Health Public health researcher Dr. Arline Gernoimus coined a term for this process that she calls “weathering”. Racism, poverty, and discrimination “literally wears down your heart, your arteries, your neuroendocrine systems, all your body systems so that in effect, you become chronologically old […]

Consumer Federation of America, January 3, 2024, The CFPB Has An Opportunity to Greatly Advance The Ethical And Non-Discriminatory Use Of AI In Financial Services And Should Take It On October 30, 2023, the White House issued Executive Order 14110 entitled the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.  The Executive Order (EO) is

The Hill, January 3, 2024, It’s Time For Congress To Address The Affordable Housing Crisis From coast to coast, the foundation of a thriving community is affordable housing. Making sure hardworking families have a safe and reliable place to live is essential to economic growth and to quality of life. Unfortunately, a chronic lack of

Reuters: January 4, 2024, From Guns To Housing, The Impact From Spending Cuts On Black Americans Is Far And Wide US House of Representatives Republicans are working to rein in government spending in ways that would affect many federal social programs and could have a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. Here is a rundown on some

The New York Times, January 3, 2024, When Will New York Solve Its Housing Crisis? Probably Not This Year Now, state leaders will get another try. The 2024 legislative session, which began on Wednesday, will again test New York State’s willingness to tackle one of its most debilitating problems. The context this year is in

Bloomberg, December 20, 2023, Big Banks Are Copying From Private Credit’s Playbook On the surface, it was your run-of-the-mill private credit deal. A bunch of heavy hitters in the industry — Oak Hill Advisors, Antares Capital and Golub Capital — were providing half-a-billion dollars to fund the buyout of an engineering firm. But at the end of

The American Prospect, January 3, 2024, Untangling The Government Funding Mess. A Congress that has operated on short deadlines and chaos since its inception last January heads into 2024 with more short deadlines and chaos. In fact, our heroes missed a crucial deadline with the passage of the new year. The debt limit deal had a condition

DCist, December 28, 2023, Forecast For Northern Virginia Housing Market In 2024 Predicts Fewer Sales, Rising Prices The already-tight housing market isn’t expected to get much better in DC’s Virginia suburbs in the new year, even though high interest rates are expected to ease, according to a forecast from the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and George

Planetizen, January 2, 2024, Approaching Affordable Housing From All Angles Writing in Architectural Digest, Abigail Glasgow assesses the state of affordable housing in the United States. For Glasgow, “Like any systemic issue, the first step to deconstructing the housing crisis requires getting the terminology right.” The article includes examples from places as diverse as Rhode Island and

Federal Trade Commission, December 18, 2023, Federal Trade Commission And Justice Department Release 2023 Merger Guidelines The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department jointly issued the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which describe factors and frameworks the agencies utilize when reviewing mergers and acquisitions. The 2023 Merger Guidelines are the culmination of a nearly two-year process of

WTOP News, January 1, 2024, How A Northern Virginia Teen Is Spreading The Word Around Climate Change With Art From Europe to the Southwestern US, 2023 was likely the hottest year on record. When it comes to the changing planet, a Fairfax County, Virginia, teen wants kids to take action now. Arielle Kouyoumdjian, 17, is founder

The New York Times, October 31, 2023, The New York Times: The Cost of Being Disable in New York City Housing. As a wheelchair user, I have always had to pay a premium to live in an apartment independently. In my nine years living in New York City, I have spent more than $18,500 on

Realtor, October 10, 2023, Is the Housing Market Overvalued? What Buyers Need To Know Homes in 98 of the 100 largest housing markets are selling above their long-term prices, which indicates that they are overvalued, according to an August analysis from Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University researchers. Only two markets had homes selling at a

Axios, October 10, 2023, U.S. Economy Adds Staggering 336,000 Jobs In September The U.S. economy added a staggering 336,000 jobs in September, defying expectations of a slowdown, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.8%, according to new data the Labor Department released Friday. : The new data reverses what had been signs of a definitive cooling in the labor market.

NPR, October 10, 2023, The Forest Service Is Trying To Build Affordable Housing To Keep Staff In Colorado The U.S. Forest Service is in charge of millions of acres in Colorado’s mountains, but their workers can hardly afford to live there. Now, the service is trying to build more affordable staff housing. The Forest Service