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For decades, the U.S. has required banks to steer a portion of their money to people in poor neighborhoods. Now, under proposed rule changes, banks may finance upgrades to sports stadiums, call it helping the poor — and potentially even get a generous tax break. 

As the doubts clear, more and more actors in international development need to come around to the insight that the simplest, cleanest intervention often has the greatest effect.

If private equity is to work to the benefit of all stakeholders, then Congress needs to demonstrate the same talent for making markets work that bad actors on Wall Street have shown for sabotaging them.

Adults under 40 have been accumulating less and less wealth over the past 30 years, plummeting from owning 13% of the wealth in 1989 to less than 7% today.

The housing crisis facing the Defense Department dates back over 20 years. Congress enacted the Military Housing Privatization Initiative in 1996 to address Pentagon concerns over inadequate and poor quality housing for service members.

In a sign of how difficult it has been for Massachusetts to tackle its mounting housing crisis, a modest bill that would make it easier for cities and towns to build more homes — only if they want to — has been in legislative limbo for two years and counting, despite broad support and a months-long push for passage by Governor Charlie Baker.

As of 2016, the median wealth for Black families in America was $17,600, while the median wealth for White families was $171,000.

In a statement Tuesday, Avery Cohen, deputy press secretary for de Blasio, accused Newark officials of discriminating against low-income families.

Advocates are arguing that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits usurious loans.

The announcement is perhaps the most sudden development to date in a Democratic presidential campaign where Harris began in the top tier.

Anderson Cooper visits a tent city in the Seattle area and hears from some of America’s more than 500,000 homeless people.

The biggest metropolitan areas are now the most unequal.

Strict checks introduced by lenders after the financial crisis mean that 140,000 people cannot remortgage on to a lower rate

In the 20th century, California’s Black farmworkers settled in waterless colonies. The history endures underground, through old pipes, dry wells and shoddy septic tanks.

A nonprofit student loan group alleges that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has abandoned its duty to police widespread mismanagement of a loan forgiveness program for public service workers.