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A troubling undercurrent in this trend is that women, more than men, are creating the downdraft, according to an analysis by the Center for Retirement Research. The life expectancy of 65-year-old American women is 2½ years less than women in the other countries. The difference for men is only about a year.

Veronica Polanco, president of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council and a longtime resident of the community, hopes the show will feel authentic. She acknowledges that it’s a conundrum for residents who want their stories to be told and for the neighborhood to be highlighted but, at the same time, don’t want to be used as a token example of inequality and a catch-all for Latino-ness.

The newest structural barrier to savings to emerge is student debt. One study found that Millennials who don’t have student loans are saving two times more for retirement than young adults with the loans.

While the algorithm helps protect respondents’ confidentiality, a test run on the last census shows it may produce wildly inaccurate numbers for rural areas and minority populations.

The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism.

Constant says payday loans systematically oppress low-income Americans.

There’s an irony in the situation at Wells Fargo. The bank largely skated through the 2008 credit crisis that upended Wall Street and shifted pay practices across the industry. Now its executives are feeling the brunt of those changes.

“The Nipmuc Nation Tribal Council has very publicly decried the use of Native American mascots, even when the organization using said mascots believes that they are in some way flattering or used as a means of honoring Native Americans,” wrote Nipmuc Nation Tribal Council Chairman Kenneth Gould Sr. in a letter to the board.

“[T]he Nation categorically opposes the barrier construction projects, because they directly harm and threaten both the lands currently reserved for the Nation … and its ancestral lands that extend along the international boundary in Arizona,” Ned Norris Jr., chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, said in an accompanying letter to CBP’s Tucson sector chief.

The March 9 deadline is fast approaching for members of the public to submit comments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) regarding proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations.

Affordable for whom? It is not just a question from communities within the footprint of every proposed rezoning in New York City. It is a question that is being asked across the nation.

California’s lawmakers once again failed to allow more housing in the state. They’re afraid to accept the single-family home is outdated.

The mistakes do not appear intentional, but they raise questions about whether there will ever be a completely precise accounting.

Every first-time parent in the city will soon be eligible to receive as many as six home visits from professionals.

Juul targeted Native American tribes when trying to sell their e-cigarette products, according to a report released by Congressional investigators Wednesday.