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Vox, March 25, 2021, The filibuster’s racist history, explained The question of what to do about the filibuster — the once-arcane Senate rule that creates a de facto 60-vote threshold for major legislation — is arguably the most important topic in Washington, DC, right now. It is the main thing blocking Senate Democrats from approving

CNBC, March 25, 2021, ‘Super Bowl of tax reform’: Groups gear up for fight over Biden plan to raise taxes on rich, corporations Advocacy groups from across the political spectrum are preparing for an all-out war over President Biden’s coming tax reform proposal. The plan is expected to include tax increases on wealthier families and

The Washington Post, March 17, 2021, Opinion: Who will march for Asian Americans after the killings in Atlanta? On Tuesday, a 21-year-old White man was arrested and subsequently charged with killing eight people, six of them Asian women, at three spas in the Atlanta area. Though police are still determining his possible motive, the shootings were

NPR, March 16, 2021, Venture Aims To ‘Resurrect And Reimagine’ Anti-Slavery Newspaper For The 21st Century The summer of 2020 ignited a wave of nationwide protests and renewed calls for racial justice across the U.S. Now, a new media platform aims to be at the forefront of that push. The Boston Globe and Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

NPR, March 9, 2021, Results From The City That Just Gave Away Cash In 2012, when Michael Tubbs was a city council member in Stockton, Calif., the city was going through a tough time. It was dealing with the fallout from the financial crisis. It was working its way through a bankruptcy. It was also

Reverse Mortgage Daily, March 11, 2021, FHA Officially Drops LIBOR for Adjustable-Rate Reverse Mortgages, Adopts SOFR The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Thursday officially announced that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program is moving on from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) index for adjustable-rate HECMs, and will instead adopt the Secured Overnight Financing

The 19th, March 9 , 2021, On Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Pay Day, the numbers only tell part of real story For Asian American and Pacific Islander women who have long felt invisible in the nation’s response to economic inequity, the pandemic has been no different. The federal data on how Asian

The Hill, March 10, 2021, Senate confirms Fudge as Housing secretary The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by a solid bipartisan margin. Senators approved Fudge’s nomination to be HUD secretary on a 66-34 vote. She will be the first woman to hold the position

The Guardian, March 24, 2021, Big banks’ trillion-dollar finance for fossil fuels ‘shocking’, says report The world’s biggest 60 banks have provided $3.8tn of financing for fossil fuel companies since the Paris climate deal in 2015, according to a report by a coalition of NGOs. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic cutting energy use, overall funding remains

NPR, March 24, 2021, Asian Grandmother Who Smacked Her Attacker With A Board Donates Nearly $1 Million Xiao Zhen Xie, the 75-year-old woman who was punched by a white man in San Francisco — and then fought back by smacking him with a board — will not keep the nearly $1 million that has been

Finextra, March 24, 2021, Robinhood files for IPO Controversial stock trading app Robinhood has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The company has been at the centre of a battle between activist retail investors and hedge funds shorting stock in companies such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment. Robinhood

The New York Times, March 20, 2021, Opinion: How to Collect $1.4 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes When the federal government started withholding income taxes from workers’ paychecks during World War II, the innovation was presented as a matter of fairness, a way to ensure that everyone paid. Irving Berlin wrote a song for the Treasury Department:

Grist, March 24, 2021, Zoned out: One woman’s half-century fight to desegregate Berkeley When Dorothy Walker was looking for a place to live in Berkeley, California, it didn’t take her very long to learn that half the city was off-limits to her family. It was 1950, and the rules were clear: “Because my husband was

ABC News, March 24, 2021, Kim Janey being sworn in as 1st Black, 1st woman mayor of Boston Throughout its 200-year history, Boston has been governed by mayors they have all been white men — mainly of Irish American or Italian American decent. That history changes Wednesday when Kim Janey is sworn in as mayor. Kim Janey