Add your voice and expertise to the 2024 Just Economy Conference. The conference takes place April 3-4 in Washington, DC, and is preceded by NCRC’s member-only Hill Day on April 2. This is the national event for community, business, foundation, policy and government leaders who want a nation that not only promises but delivers opportunities …
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Since March of 2022, the unemployment rate has stayed somewhere between 3.4% and 3.7%. The latest monthly report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) breaks this trend with the rate rising to 3.8%.
“STILL A DREAM: Over 500 Years to Black Economic Equality” Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a new report lays bare the harsh reality of black economic inequality today in America. It reveals the sobering projection …
With more than 750 local, state and regional nonprofits, educational and faith-based institutions and government entities making up the National Community Reinvestment Coalitions’ (NCRC) membership, it can be hard for new members to feel instantly connected. Let’s fix that by giving them a warm NCRC welcome! New organizational members in July were: If your organization …
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With more than 750 local, state and regional nonprofits, educational and faith-based institutions and government entities making up the National Community Reinvestment Coalitions (NCRC)’s membership, it can be hard for new members to feel instantly connected. Let’s fix that by giving them a warm NCRC welcome! New organizational members in June were: If your organization …
Marketplace, June 19, 2023, Water contamination in Black communities doesn’t stop at Flint or Jackson In a lot of ways, the water crises in Flint, Michigan and Jackson, Mississippi, put lead-poisoned water on the map. And while the Biden administration has since earmarked more than $50 billion to replace lead pipes and build water treatment plants, a 2018 report by the Environmental …
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We all look to champions to inspire us. The long, challenging and too-often frustrating work of making a better world can benefit tremendously from understanding the ground-level experiences of our colleagues. It is therefore easy to recommend “The Pursuit of Fairness: Fighting for What’s Right in a World that’s so Wrong,” Alan Jennings’ autobiographical and …
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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) will host a regional summit in Denver September 26 – 27, 2023. The summit will bring together housing and community development leaders; faith-based organizations and fair lending advocates; financial institutions and environmental justice groups; as well as small business entrepreneurs, tribal leaders, public officials and academics to discuss and …
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Maryland Matters, June 20, 2023, Advocates: A Maryland Community Reinvestment Act needed to invest in underserved communities Another statute passed by Congress in 1977 was the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which is meant to ensure banks and other financial institutions meet investment needs in the low- and moderate-income communities around them. But two groups — …
American Banker, June 12, 2023, PayPal swoops into lending markets that banks abandoned PayPal and its rivals may be targeting areas previously served by community banks, but large banks have also been deemphasizing branches. Bank branches in general have had a net decline from more than 100,000 in 2009 to about 80,000 in 2022. And Self Financial reports that branches are …
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Bloomberg, June 12, 2023, Reforms to Home Appraisal Bias Target Algorithms and Tech National Community Reinvestment Coalition President Jesse Van Tol said in a press statement that the new AVM rule was “welcome news.” “As the financial industry experiments with powerful tools at the bleeding edge of technology’s new reach, our government has a duty …
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Axios, June 12, 2023, Exclusive: EPA administrator talks AI, environmental justice Driving the news: Before heading to a Silicon Valley clean energy summit Thursday, Regan stopped by Google’s campus to talk with chief sustainability officer Kate Brandt about tech innovation and how the private sector is pushing the envelope on equity and climate action. He spoke with Axios after the …
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Quartz, June 13, 2023, Could instituting a four-day workweek be a feminist act? Reception has been largely favorable. Workers report improved work-life balance, less stress and burnout, and higher productivity. But evidence has pointed to one other surprising outcome: The four-day workweek may also improve gender parity. Men with a four-day week reported spending 22% …
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With more than 750 local, state and regional nonprofits, educational and faith-based institutions and government entities making up the National Community Reinvestment Coalitions (NCRC)’s membership, it can be hard for new members to feel instantly connected.