On Our Radar

Virginia’s Supreme Court has granted a request from Gov. Ralph Northam to temporarily stop evictions proceedings, extending protections for tenants who can’t pay their rent through the beginning of September.

The Household Pulse Survey is designed to collect real-time data on how people’s lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to inform federal and state response and recovery planning.

Resistance to eliminating it has long been connected to the idea of white supremacy.

An extra $600 a week smoothed out sharp differences in benefits among states, and among the people who lived in them.

The experience economy is mixing with gig work, an incomprehensible financial system, and unpayable college debt, creating a new set of impossible-to-achieve goals for a new generation.

trump’s denials of his racism will never stop. He will continue to claim that he loves people of color, the very people his policies harm. He will continue to call himself “not racist,” and turn the descriptive term racist back on anyone who has the temerity to call out his own prejudice. Trump clearly hopes that racist ideas—paired with policies designed to suppress the vote—will lead to his reelection. But now that Trump has pushed a critical mass of Americans to a point where they can no longer explain away the nation’s sins, the question is what those Americans will do about it.

Society’s perception of child care being of lesser quality to education has rarely been so pronounced.

The coronavirus pandemic threatens America with a new wave of homelessness due to a cratering economy, expiring unemployment stimulus payments and vanishing renter protections.

The 1873 murders of dozens of former slaves in a flyspeck Louisiana town still reverberate.

Redlined neighborhoods, which remain lower-income and more likely to have Black or Hispanic residents, consistently have far fewer trees and parks that help cool the air. They also have more paved surfaces, such as asphalt lots or nearby highways, that absorb and radiate heat.

Banks have tightened standards, becoming more choosy about their borrowers and asking a lot of questions.

After the eviction cliff, a different U.S. housing crisis looms: Low-cost home production is lagging, thanks to construction slowdowns and budget cuts.

Warren said the CFPB’s guidance issued to mortgage servicer companies is allowing the companies to break the law and harm consumers.

“If it is possible for banking to actually play a role in shifting the wealth gap and significantly bringing assets to the most disenfranchised, you’re going to have to flip the model around,” said Moreno. “There is nobody I can think of who can flip the model around better than Malia Lazu.”

In 1936 a widowed black woman bought a home and it changed her family’s financial worth for generations. Today homeownership rates of black people lag even further behind whites’ rates, affecting their ability to build wealth.