New York Times: The Cities We Need
America’s cities were once engines of growth and opportunity. In this crisis, how can we save them?
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America’s cities were once engines of growth and opportunity. In this crisis, how can we save them?
New York Times: The Cities We Need Read More »
The Paycheck Protection Program largely neglected them, a survey commissioned by two equal-rights groups found. Nearly half the respondents expect to close permanently.
New York Times: Few Minority-Owned Businesses Got Relief Loans They Asked For Read More »
Jeans before masks, cookies before sneeze guards: Corporate America is failing workers during the pandemic.
Vox: Companies Are Giving Essential Workers Bullshit Rewards Read More »
Our cities’ teachers on how children’s neighborhoods at birth shape their lives.
New York Times: Without Fixing Inequality, the Schools Are Always Going to Struggle Read More »
The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving, and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher.
Mother Jones: The Bailout is Working—for the Rich Read More »
The story of one investor trying to revitalize a crumbling block in Birmingham, Alabama, shows how little value American institutions place on black properties.
City Lab: This Is How Hard It Is to Invest in Black Neighborhoods Read More »
Convicting his killers is the start. But the family of this modern lynching victim can’t have justice in a country with laws that protect white people who kill black people.
Rolling Stone: Ahmaud Arbery Should Be Alive Read More »
A lot of the people who were able to afford housing costs in April couldn’t make the same payments in May.
Vice: A Third of Americans Didn’t Pay Their Rent or Mortgage in May, Survey Says Read More »
“We need to radically shift the architecture of economic policy that replicates inequality by only rewarding people with wealth,” Perry says.
Next City: Making Black Lives Matter in Economic Policy Read More »
According to a state audit, Mississippi allowed tens of millions of dollars in federal anti-poverty funds to be used in ways that did little or nothing to help the poor.
Trump effort to let banks off the hook would be huge step backwards.
CommonWealth Magazine: It’s no time to weaken the Community Reinvestment Act Read More »
Nonprofit groups led by black and Latino directors lag behind peers with white leaders, but two leading philanthropic organizations hope to change that.
“Combine that with the increasing income segregation that we’re seeing, and you have a picture of an economic opportunity crisis that was bad while the tape was playing. Now the tape has run out, and it’s poised to get significantly worse,” he added.
Axios: Coronavirus crisis expected to drag neighborhoods deeper into poverty Read More »
Some lenders and landlords signed a nonbinding declaration. Critics say such moves aren’t enough.
Crain’s Chicago Business: Banks Pledge COVID Housing Relief Chicago Read More »
On May 1st, frontline workers at some of the biggest corporations in the country will lead a mass strike action, asking customers to boycott Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and Target.
Vice: Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart Workers Organize a Historic Mass Strike Read More »