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Senate Education Chair Blocks Bipartisan Bill to Extend HBCU Funding
When federal legislation is blocked that would extend and preserve funding for HBCUs, such actions are an affront not only…
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HUD Says Deregulation, Not Affordable Housing, Needed to Solve Homelessness
Despite the availability of homeless and poverty research, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson sent California Gov. Gavin Newsom…
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Debt Collectors Target Consumers of Color, People Making Less than $50K
Government is supposed to be "for the people" — not for corporations.
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DeVos Hands For-Profit Colleges $11.1 Billion Over 10 Years
Rather than saving taxpayer dollars, it seems that this new rule is guaranteeing a taxpayer-funded revenue stream for the benefit…
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Why Would HUD Gut Its Own Disparate Impact Rule?
Whatever happened to the American dream of owning a home and giving your children a better life than you experienced…
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America’s Racial Wealth Gap Could Cost Economy $1.5 Trillion
America’s nagging racial wealth gap has been the focus of many research reports and economic policy debates. Now new research…
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Will White House Advisory Council Act to End America’s Affordable Housing Crisis?
Time will tell whether new advisers and proposals remember the lessons from the Great Recession.
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Million-Dollar Settlements Help Consumers Harmed by For-Profit Colleges
In recent days, two unrelated developments awarded consumers more than $200 million in victories against high-cost private student loans and…
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More Bold Actions Like Billionaire’s Morehouse Gift are Needed
There remains yet another sphere of influence that could extend the kind of goodwill borne from Robert Smith's adoption of…
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CFPB Proposes Helping Debt Collectors Instead of Consumers
By the CFPB’s own survey on debt collection experiences, 44% of consumers of color reported contact by a debt collector,…
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