The Washington Post: A Face-Scanning Algorithm Increasingly Decides Whether You Deserve the Job
HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it ‘profoundly disturbing.’
HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it ‘profoundly disturbing.’
The bank’s grant, the largest so far in the corridor; will support affordable housing and small businesses.
Mapping Segregation is a resource for historians, activists, educators, students and journalists, and provides essential context for conversations around race and gentrification in D.C.
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More than half of the world’s banks are already in a weak position before any downturn that may be coming, according to a report from consultancy McKinsey & Co.
Bloomberg: Banks Must Act Now or Risk Becoming a ‘Footnote’: McKinsey Read More »
New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal.
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Author Anand Giridharadas is rebuking the idea that philanthropic billionaires are society’s heroes. Even some plutocrats are starting to agree with him.
Fast Company: This Man is Disrupting the Cult of the Billionaire Read More »
Regulators have long warned the credit bureaus about deceptive marketing that causes consumers to sign up unwittingly for paid monitoring services. But the practice has persisted, according to complaint data.
American Banker: ‘Absolute scam’: Complaints About Credit Monitoring Plans Flood CFPB Read More »
Five luminaries explain the concept of ‘environmental justice’ and reveal why, alongside the climate crisis, it is one of the most pressing issues of our time
Some Bay Area activists are taking their wealth and are spending it on housing — for others. Rebelling against real estate speculation, they are building homes that will be kept affordable in perpetuity.
Cities with more Black residents rely more on “policing for profit”—using traffic tickets and fines as a larger source of revenue.
CityLab: The Link Between Race and Traffic Tickets Read More »
The historian and sociologist W.E.B. DuBois believed that social science data should be evocative.
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While expensive development throughout Brooklyn has led to displacement of Black and Hispanic residents over the past couple of decades, according to a report earlier this year from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Dumbo itself was mostly an industrial neighborhood, where old warehouses and factories were transformed into pricey lofts.
A federal program to encourage black homeownership in the 1970s ended in a flood of foreclosures.
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Though the debate regarding the future of the CRA is with the federal regulators, we should not, and cannot, forget the role of our local communities and local governments, as they have the most to lose from potential changes to this vital law.
Local Resolutions: One Tool in Supporting Appropriate CRA Reform Read More »
Lending and investments would total $7.75 billion over the 2020 to 2023 period and align with the combined retail branch footprint in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada and Texas.