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The New York Times, April 18, 2022, A Rising Tally of Lonely Deaths on the Streets More than ever it has become deadly to be homeless in America, especially for men in their 50s and 60s, who typically make up the largest cohort of despair. In many cities the number of homeless deaths doubled during […]

The Washington Post, April 19, 2022, Report: Majority of renters can’t afford to buy in their city Double-digit rent increases in the past year make many renters long to lock in their housing costs by buying a home. But a recent analysis by Porch, a home services platform, found that 61 percent of renters can’t afford

The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2022, Small Businesses Object to Rerouting of COVID-19 Aid Small-business owners are bristling over a congressional proposal that would redirect unspent money from COVID-19 programs to provide $10 billion for the federal government’s pandemic health response, including vaccines and therapeutics. At issue is about $5 billion that Congress allocated for three

The Washington Post, April 15, 2022, Black, Latino communities have a higher level of oil drilling and pollution Majority Black and Latino communities that received the worst grades under a racially discriminatory federal housing program known as redlining have nearly twice as many oil drilling wells as mostly White communities, a new study says. The

The New York Times, April 15, 2022, Amazon vs. the Union In the coming weeks, the fight between the new union and Amazon is likely to become even more heated. Amazon is marshaling its legal might to try to overturn the election. The new union will attempt to win another, more difficult vote at a

NPR, April 14, 2022, Millions of Americans are resorting to risky ways to buy an affordable home Land contracts and other kinds of alternative financing have been around a long time, with roots in the race-based redlining that blocked Black Americans from traditional mortgages. But legal aid experts say they became more common after the

Grist, April 13, 2022, Historically redlined neighborhoods have twice the number of oil and gas wells The analysis is the first of its kind, the work of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco, and Columbia University. They compared data on the location of plugged and active oil and

efinancialcareers, April 12, 2022, Women in banking: “Male bankers get all the top jobs” It’s frustrating. The nature of this industry is simply that there are fewer women at managing director level. I have had to fight to get to this position – there are many occasions where male colleagues who were more lazy than me

Bloomberg, April 14, 2022, Citi Began Deepening Its Russia Retreat Before Ukraine Invasion On Thursday, Citigroup revealed the result of their quiet work: The firm had trimmed exposure to Russia by $2 billion in the first three months of the year, including offloading $300 million worth of derivatives linked to the country. Unlike many of

USA Today, April 12, 2022, HUD unveils plan to help people with a criminal record find a place to live In a memo sent out to staff on Tuesday, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge instructed the department to review programs and policies that may “pose barriers to housingfor persons with criminal histories or their families.” Fudge told

American Banker, April 12, 2022, States take different paths on small-business loan disclosures Small businesses in Virginia and Utah will soon get clearer disclosures about the money they borrow from merchant advance companies. But the disclosures will be lacking one number: the annual percentage rate they will pay for each loan. That won’t be the

Columbia Climate School, April 8, 2022, Heat Mapping New York City and Environmental Justice The New York City heat mapping project is part of a nationwide initiative. Williams’ team produced the heat map data shown in the map below using data collected by citizen scientists; Yoon is the principal investigator in the New York City

Essence, April 13, 2022, National Urban League Examines Racial Wealth Gap Due To Voter Suppression Through ‘State of Black America’ Conference To mark the release of their 2022 State of Black America® report, “Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy, on April 12 the National Urban League (NUL) convened the nation’s foremost political, media and

The New York Times, April 14, 2022, A New Legal Tactic to Protect Workers’ Pay In a first, the Justice Department has brought a series of criminal cases against employers for colluding to suppress wages. The push started in December 2020, under the Trump administration, with an indictment accusing a staffing agency in the Dallas-Fort

The Washington Post, April 13, 2022, Environmental justice leaders fault White House’s race-neutral approach Soon after taking office, Biden followed through on part of that promise by creating the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council to coordinate the Justice40 Initiative, which aims to deliver 40 percent of the benefits of federal climate-related investments to disadvantaged