NCRC Hires Kathryn Orr as New Director of Entrepreneurship
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has added its first Director of Entrepreneurship.
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Healthy Mobility: An Urgent, New Public Transportation Puzzle
Stay-at-home orders caused large decreases in ridership for public transit around the country.
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The Economic Reality of Asian Americans, Including Intragroup Differences
Demystifying blanket assumptions regarding the economic status of Asian Americans is key in understanding the large disparities that live within the group, and can help reduce intra-group inequalities.
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Racial Wealth Snapshot: Asian Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide
Download Infographic Introduction Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and are predicted to be the nation’s largest immigrant group in 50 years.[1] Asian American is a racial category that includes Americans who are from or whose relatives are from a diverse group of countries: China, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan,
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Removal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, COVID-19 and the Dangers to the Lives of African Americans
The poor implementation of affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) has taken a significant toll on the health of African Americans. Therefore, we need to make communities equal to allow all Americans to have a healthy life and a chance to survive after this.
Homeowners Rights and Resources During the COVID Crisis
To help mitigate this decline in employment from turning into a homeownership crisis, the CARES Act provides two protections.
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My Parents Have Always Been Essential Workers
It is elderly shop owners who are stacking cans of soup, packing bottles of juice and soft drinks into coolers, making sure we have bread, milk, eggs and our local newspaper.
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Only the 1% Will Survive COVID-19 Pandemic Intact
The one thing that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed is that a full quarantine is an option for the wealthy only, and by the wealthy, the 1%. Only they will survive this pandemic with limited changes to their lives.
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A Trillion in Prevention
We are living in an intense time, a time where public policy failures and social inequality are revealing themselves at a level that was hidden by a relatively strong economy.
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Community Participation in Fair Housing Planning Process Under Threat
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a new proposed rule to change the affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) rule of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). This new proposal aims to set back years of progress by no longer enforcing meaningful community participation in the AFFH process. Without the crucial input of local community members who face housing inequalities, the new rule eliminates the main elements of accountability meant to address discrimination and inequality.
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Could Adequate Small Business Lending Data Be on the Horizon?
Proper implementation of Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act would reveal who is receiving small business loans and where they are located.
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Racial Wealth Snapshot: African Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide
Download Infographic Defining African American Though a term that has personal meanings and different connotations for many, “African American” is defined by the U.S. Census as “a person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa,” and used synonymously with the simple term “Black.” These African roots can be found in an array
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Racial Wealth Snapshot: American Indians/ Native Americans
Native Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide The United States has too often hindered Native American advancement, not advanced it. Through years of intentional governmental policies that removed lands and resources, American Indians have been separated from the wealth and assets that was rightfully theirs. Thus Native Americans, which refers to people from any of the
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Latinos, the Racial Wealth Divide and Rebuilding the American Middle Class
As National Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) developed a Latino Racial Wealth Snapshot to reflect on the diversity, culture and socioeconomic challenges facing the nation’s largest ethnic group of color. With a total of 58.8 million (foreign-born: 36%; native-born: 62%), the Latino community ranks at 18.1% of the U.S.
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Racial Wealth Snapshot: Latino Americans
Defining Hispanic and Latino In census data, Hispanic is the term most often used to describe the ethnicity of the people in the United States from Spanish speaking countries. However, it is most often thought of as a person from or has ancestry in Latin America, excluding people from Spain. The term Latino, shorthand for
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