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A bipartisan tradition of no prosecutions and weak fines against big banks continues.

There are pros to a reverse mortgage, but the complexity of the product means you shouldn’t overlook the cons.

After the Civil War, the nature-loving commander in chief ‘knew the country was going to have to heal environmentally,’ a historian says.

“The end goal we see locally is more direct and accelerated investment in these things like affordable housing, renewable energy, small business,” says Kurtis Wu, who co-founded the San Francisco Public Banking Coalition.

Judy Shelton had defended previous positions in a written response to senator’s initial queries.

He’s spent a lot of this campaign trying to reassure voters that he’s macho enough to take on Trump by trading insults on Twitter. Personally, I’d prefer someone brave enough to answer basic questions about his beliefs.

Here are three ways community banks can use the changing definition of community to reimagine their strategic vision.

The most persuasive and comprehensive explanation for why Black and Hispanic adults are more unbanked than White adults is the prevalence of White supremacy in America’s financial system.

The move will give one of Wall Street’s powerful blue-chip firms control of a major presence in the world of online brokerages.

“You can’t talk about educational inequities or the shrinking middle class without talking about how much it costs to live near good schools and high-paying jobs,” [Dougherty] writes.

Scholars who study housing discrimination point to redlining as one factor behind the gulf in wealth between blacks and whites in the U.S. today.

I’ve met with residents of our properties across the country who have shared how access to affordable housing completely changed their ability to budget. Residents can now pay down high-interest borrowing — debt that is often accumulated from purchasing common household items.

This is not just about a quintessential American dream, but about finally receiving the opportunities my ancestors deserved, yet were systemically denied.

Of course, clothing is not the beginning and end of running for office. The company seems to get that, as it reportedly wrote in an email then posted to Twitter: “We never purport that clothes help move the needle on female representation, but we want to do our part to make things a tiny bit easier.”

They didn’t mind renting a fixer-upper, but three years later they’re still working on it.