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The New York Times, September 7, 2022, Clean Energy Projects Surge After Climate Bill Passage In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects to produce the kind of technology the legislation aims to promote.

NPR, September 7, 2022, Racial Disparities In D.C.’s Opioid Arrests New arrest data shows that Black D.C. residents are arrested almost seven times as often as white residents for opioid-related offenses, which advocates say bolsters their case for decriminalization and the need to move funds away from policing and into safe-use resources.

Them, September 2, 2022, A Nebraska School Ended Its Journalism Program After A single LGBTQ+ Edition Of Its Paper Students and staff at Northwest High School in Grand Island, Nebraska, were notified that the 54-year-old journalism program was being eliminated on May 19, just three days after its June issue of the Viking Saga was printed, local

American Banker, September 2, 2022, Bank Of America Aims Mortgages, CRE Loans At Women And Minorities Two new Bank of America lending programs seek to promote homeownership among minority borrowers as well as incentivize economic development in disadvantaged communities. One is a pilot program that would offer mortgages to Black and Hispanic Americans using rent,

The Washington Post, September 2, 2022, The Washington Post: Arlington Offered $23M For Amazon HQ2. So Far, It Hasn’t Paid A Dime When Amazon announced its plans to build a second headquarters somewhere in North America, cities and states around the continent stopped at nothing to woo the tech giant. They made promises of billion-dollar tax breaks and

CNN, September 2, Free Healthy Grocery Deliveries Kept Her Community Fed Through The Pandemic, But This Chef’s Battle Against Food Insecurity Is Far From Over A former restaurant chef, Calichio had built a cooking and gardening business that halted completely, leaving her with no income. Her husband, Omar, also a chef, continued his restaurant job,

CNN, August 22, 2022, 72% of economists expect a US recession by the middle of next year Nearly three in four forecasters (73%) in the NABE survey say they are not at all confident or not very confident the Fed can get inflation back down to its 2% goal without causing a recession within the

NPR, August 22, 2022, All-Black, All-Female American Airlines Crew Flies From Dallas To Honor Bessie Coleman In honor of the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license, American Airlines operated a flight out of Dallas with an all-Black, all-female crew.

The New York Times, August 12, 2022, Climate and Tax Bill Rewrites Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program A $4 billion program to help Black and other “socially disadvantaged” farmers that never got off the ground last year amid legal objections will be replaced with a plan to make relief funds available to farmers who have

News-Medical.net, August 11, 2022, Health inequalities amongst ethnic minorities with diabetes have worsened during the pandemic, study shows Existing health disparities amongst ethnic minorities with diabetes have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published in the journal Diabetes Care has reported. Academics from the University of Leicester are urging care services to address

The New York Times, August 8, 2022, In an Unequal Economy, the Poor Face Inflation Now and Job Loss Later Higher-income households built up savings and wealth during the early stages of the pandemic as they stayed at home and their stocks, houses and other assets rose in value. Between those stockpiles and solid wage

The Atlantic, August 10, 2022, How California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the shift to remote work was supposed to ease the long-festering housing crisis in “superstar” metros such as Los Angeles and New York. Prices would fall as workers once tethered to offices in Century City