The Household Pulse Survey is designed to collect real-time data on how people’s lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to inform federal and state response and recovery planning.
The United States Census Bureau: Second Phase of Household Pulse Survey Read More »
Resistance to eliminating it has long been connected to the idea of white supremacy.
The New York Times: Opinion | How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long? Read More »
An extra $600 a week smoothed out sharp differences in benefits among states, and among the people who lived in them.
The experience economy is mixing with gig work, an incomprehensible financial system, and unpayable college debt, creating a new set of impossible-to-achieve goals for a new generation.
Fast Company: The new American Dream is just as unattainable as the old one Read More »
trump’s denials of his racism will never stop. He will continue to claim that he loves people of color, the very people his policies harm. He will continue to call himself “not racist,” and turn the descriptive term racist back on anyone who has the temerity to call out his own prejudice. Trump clearly hopes that racist ideas—paired with policies designed to suppress the vote—will lead to his reelection. But now that Trump has pushed a critical mass of Americans to a point where they can no longer explain away the nation’s sins, the question is what those Americans will do about it.
The Atlantic: Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? Read More »
Society’s perception of child care being of lesser quality to education has rarely been so pronounced.
The New York Times: Why Are Child Care Programs Open When Schools Are Not? Read More »
The coronavirus pandemic threatens America with a new wave of homelessness due to a cratering economy, expiring unemployment stimulus payments and vanishing renter protections.
Axios: 23 million Americans face eviction Read More »
The 1873 murders of dozens of former slaves in a flyspeck Louisiana town still reverberate.
The New York Times: Opinion | The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists Read More »
A study conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition in July found that Black business owners had a harder time securing coronavirus financial relief than white business owners.
“It was possible that some banks did do it, but most banks didn’t add that into the PPP loans,” said Dedrick Asante?Muhammad, Chief of Race at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “They were all scrambling to understand and collect.”
The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit recently called the PPP data “mostly worthless.”
The Trump Administration has attacked one of the most vital pieces of civil rights legislation, the Fair Housing Act, on multiple fronts in the last several weeks. They gutted the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule that enforces fairness in housing. Now, they are effectively eliminating the disparate impact standard in fair housing cases.
NCRC Condemns HUD’s Disparate Impact Rule Read More »
September 3rd, 2020 National Community Reinvestment Coalition 740 15th St. NW Washington, DC 20005 Brian Brooks Acting Comptroller of the Currency 400 7th St SW Washington, DC 20219 Re: Comments on Proposal “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders” Docket ID: OCC-2020-0026 RIN 1557-AE97 Honorable Acting Comptroller Brooks: The undersigned respectfully submit this comment
The OCC “True Lender” rule will allow lenders to evade state consumer protections Read More »
September 3rd, 2020 The National Community Reinvestment Coalition 740 15th St. NW Washington, DC 20005 Brian Brooks Acting Comptroller of the Currency 400 7th St SW Washington, DC 20219 Re: Comments on Proposal “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders” Docket ID: OCC-2020-0026 RIN 1557-AE97 Dear Mr. Brooks: We strongly oppose the Office of
NCRC Opposes National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders Read More »
As COVID-19 disproportionately affects BIPOC and police violence perpetuates devastation to families and communities of color, local governments across the country are acknowledging racism as a public health crisis through public declarations.
Will local resolutions against racism make a difference? Read More »
If it remains confined to banks, CRA will miss opportunities to make sure that securities services are offered equitably to low- and moderate-income communities.
