Civil Rights News: Unemployment Down & Jobs Up, Foreclosure Crisis,...
Unemployment Rate Falls in February, U.S. Adds 192K Jobs The Huffington Post The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 192,000 jobs were added to the U.S. Economy in February. The majority of jobs...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Fed Denies Wrongful Foreclosures, Head Start and TFA Face...
Fed Report Finds No Wrongful Foreclosures By Banks, Consumer Advocates Slam Methodology The Huffington Post An investigation into abusive mortgage practices concludes that there were no wrongful...
View ArticleOn Mortgage Fraud
Paul Krugman had a great op-ed in the New York Times a few days ago debunking banks’ claims that any proposed settlement with states and the federal government over lending abuses they perpetrated will...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Wrongful Foreclosures, Tax the Rich, Obama to Propose...
One Woman’s Foreclosure Fight: Is Victory In Sight? NPR Debra Dahlmer, a retired and legally blind middle-aged woman, has been threatened with foreclosure by her bank despite the fact that she has...
View ArticleHow to Fix the Housing Market
The New York Times breaks down why the federal government’s foreclosure prevention isn’t working: Since the problems in housing are not self-curing, a government fix is in order. But the Obama...
View ArticleWhat to Do about the Racial Wealth Gap
Check out Thomas Shapiro and Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry (filling in for Rachel Maddow who is on vacation) discussing the explosion of the racial wealth gap, and the policies that our government could...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Breaks Down the Danger of Obstruction to a CFPB Head
Check out this great segment from Rachel Maddow, where she explains how obstruction in the Senate to keep anyone from running the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is incredibly dangerous. I...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: State Laws Blocking Voters; AG Holder on Voting Rights;...
Compiled by Willie Roberson, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern States’ Voter ID Laws Could Disenfranchise Thousands in 2012 Associated Press Los Angeles Times In a review of...
View ArticleWatch ‘American Banksters’: The Scam Artists Behind the Housing and...
The damage caused by the “banksters” is epic and millions of Americans have a paid a heavy price. As the story goes, low-income and minority communities were targeted by “subprime” lenders peddling...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Immigration Reform Politics; Forceclosure Crisis Unfixed;...
Compiled by Emily Van Dusen, a Spring 2013 intern at The Leadership Conference Education Fund Citing Rubio’s Ideas on Immigration Reform, White House Sees Hope for Bipartisan Deal By David Nakamura and...
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