Bloomberg Businessweek: The U.S.-Mexico border is becoming a banking desert
Options are drying up for small businesses in areas of high money laundering risk.
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Options are drying up for small businesses in areas of high money laundering risk.
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Secretary Betsy DeVos started to scale back protections for student loan borrowers last year.
Yale Law grad, and entrepreneur, Stacey Abrams, had to confront what could be her Achilles’ heel: debt
OZY: Contending with debt – 244 midterm candidates are in the red Read More »
Many Chinese have been left battered and baffled by the recent collapse of China’s peer-to-peer lending industry
The Washington Post: Chinese anger grows as ‘get rich quick’ investment schemes go bust Read More »
Researchers have a name for this displacement phenomenon- climate gentrification.
Huffington Post: Climate change is creating an affordable housing crisis in Miami Read More »
Bank of America has been accused of asking citizenship questions and for proof of residency, then freezing customers’ accounts after failing to properly recognize their current residency status.
Despite a growing economy, even the middle class is struggling to pay for rent, groceries, utilities or health care.
CBS: Almost half of Americans can’t pay for their basic needs Read More »
Federal policy prevented people of color from buying homes in certain neighborhoods. The effects of this racist policy, called redlining, shapes Tacoma neighborhoods decades later.
The News Tribune: How racism kept black Tacomans from buying houses for decades Read More »
“The Bureau’s current leadership folded to political pressure… and failed borrowers who depend on independent oversight to halt bad practices,” writes CFPB top official, Seth Frotman, in his resignation letter.
American Banker, August 28, 2018: OCC goes it alone on first step toward CRA overhaul The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued more than 30 questions Tuesday asking the public how it can revamp a 40-year-old law that grades banks on their lending to low- and moderate-income communities. The questions are included as
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It is infuriating that officials have put the welfare of most Americans at risk to enrich the wealthiest few.
The New York Times: Inviting the next financial crisis Read More »
When my wife and I adopted our daughter from Ethiopia in 2010, we did so full of hope. In the years since, we’ve faced ugliness that has robbed us of our optimism—and left us fearful for the future of our country.
The Atlantic: America soured on my multiracial family Read More »
The student loan ombudsman at CFPB has resigned, saying the agency’s leaders have chosen to serve powerful financial companies instead of consumers.
NPR: Student loan watchdog quits, blames Trump administration Read More »
The problem of Confederate monuments points to a larger, persistent conviction among some white Americans that racial equality brings white oppression in its wake.
The Washington Post: Why some white Americans see racial equality as oppression Read More »
Society’s winners can seem so generous, until you consider what they’re really selling.
The New York Times: Beware rich people who say they want to change the world Read More »