The US financial system is racked with inequities. Sometimes, they’re obvious: who can and can’t get approved for a loan, who has a bank account and who doesn’t. But other times, they can fly under the radar.
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Banks serve a vital role in the U.S. economy and financial system but many Upstate banks are realizing their roles must extend beyond that of a trusted lender and business partner — they must also be good corporate citizens.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued its list of state nonmember banks recently evaluated for compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The list covers evaluation ratings that the FDIC assigned to institutions in March 2021.
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If you talk to many of the people working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, you’ll hear that we are on the cusp of a technology that will be far more transformative than simply computers and the internet, one that could bring about a new industrial revolution and usher in a utopia — or perhaps pose the greatest threat in our species’s history.
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Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd hears more from Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, chief of membership, policy and equity at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
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Nine in 10 investors backed a call last month for International Business Machines Corp. to produce an annual diversity report.
Addressing the Needs of Black-Owned Businesses and Entrepreneurs Photo: © Andrey Popov via stock.adobe.com A follow-up report on the impacts of COVID-19 on entrepreneurship in Piedmont, North Carolina. Authors: Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chief of Membership, Policy and Equity at NCRCJamie Buell, Coordinator of Racial Economic Equity at NCRCTalib Graves-Manns, Co-Founder of Partners in Equity NCWilson Lester, Co-Founder
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A nonprofit group that helps Black and marginalized communities in Kentucky has received a six-figure donation from a white donor who says they recently inherited family wealth — and then learned that their great-grandfather owned enslaved people.
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Just Economy Conference – May 4, 2021 John Taylor, President and Founder, NCRC Transcript NCRC video transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. They are lightly edited for style and clarity. Taylor 0:01 Thank you everybody for giving me the opportunity to address you virtually. I’d obviously love to be
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Just Economy Conference – May 4, 2021 Senator Elizabeth Warren, (D-MA), Member of the Senate’s Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee Transcript NCRC video transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. They are lightly edited for style and clarity. Warren  0:00 Hello to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and all of you
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Just Economy Conference – May 3, 2021 Jesse Van Tol, CEO, NCRC Van Tol 0:01 Good afternoon, or good morning to those of you on the west coast. I’m Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. And on behalf of our staff, our board and NCRC members across the nation, welcome
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Just Economy Conference – May 3, 2021 Marisa Calderon, Chief of Community Finance & Mobility, NCRC Jennifer Garcia, CEO, Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Bob Dickerson, Executive Director, Birmingham Business Resource Center Transcript: NCRC video transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. They are lightly edited for style and clarity. Calderon 0:00 Today I
Just Economy Conference – May 3, 2021 Senator Charles Schumer, (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Transcript NCRC video transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. They are lightly edited for style and clarity. Schumer 0:00 Congratulations to the NCRC for celebrating 30 excellent years. Thanks to NCRC founder and president
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Just Economy Conference – May 3, 2021 Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Transcript NCRC video transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. They are lightly edited for style and clarity. Fudge 0:00 I’m honored to join every distinguished speaker at this conference, including chair Jerome Powell, Senator
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Just Economy Conference – May 3, 2021 Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chief of Membership, Policy & Equity, NCRC Diane Yentel, President & CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition Andre Perry, Senior Fellow, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program ——– Transcript NCRC video transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. They are lightly edited for style and clarity.
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