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March 28, 2024
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas and Wells Fargo Bank Award $850K for Rio Manor Apartments Renovation
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JAMS Diversity Fellowship Accepting Applications
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Bill Introduced in Minnesota Would Increase Access To Genetic Testing
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American Water Charitable Foundation Announces National Partnership With American Red Cross With $250,000 Donation
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Layoffs hit minorities hard, fast in recession
March 25, 2009
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Local, State Health Departments Forced To Cut Services for Undocumented Immigrants Amid Economic Recession
March 25, 2009
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An equal opportunity recession?
March 17, 2009
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REPORT FINDS THAT NON-WHITES ARE BEARING THE HEAVIEST BURDEN IN CURRENT RECESSION
March 16, 2009
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Author details How to Fearlessly Keep Your Small Business Sailing through the Rough Seas of the Recession
March 13, 2009
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Recession Has Silver Lining For Minority Health Care Workers
March 12, 2009
Health care is the fastest growing sector of the economy - good news for Blacks and other minorities who are often underrepresented in many healthcare occupations. ...
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Minority Job Agencies Suffer Through Majority's Recession
March 12, 2009
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NCCP Report: Recession or Not, Many U.S. Families Can’t Afford Basic Needs, Even at Twice Minimum Wage
March 03, 2009
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The Recession and the 'Deserving Poor’
March 02, 2009
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MINORITY NYC BUSINESSES COMPLAIN
July 03, 2020
NEW YORK - Angered by what they consider overly punitive enforcement by police, Black and Brown New York City business leaders today demanded the practice end. Led by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams outside of New York Police headquarters, the minority businesses claimed they received exorbitant fines, required changes to a business's method of operations, including shorter hours, and even revocation of a business's liquor license. ...
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CA Black Community Rallies For LA Sports Complex
September 07, 2011
Citing Black unemployment, minority rights groups in the Black community are calling on California Senator Alan Lowenthal and all California legislators to stand up for jobs, especially for those hit hardest by the recession. The protest is co-sponsored ...
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Minority Groups Stress Transportation Funding
September 02, 2011
Following President Obama’s call for a “clean extension†of the surface transportation bill and a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Leadership Conference Education Fund released a new report, “Getting to Work: Transportation Policy and Access to Job Opportunities,†which highlights how inequities in transportation ...
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Hunger Strikes Older Minorities
August 31, 2011
A report released today by AARP found that that the risk of hunger for Blacks and Hispanics in their 50s was twice that of whites over the years studied. The study also provided detailed analysis of hunger risk across states and major metropolitan areas, finding that hunger risk was notably higher among those residing in the South. ...
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SC Latino Home Ownership Tumbles
August 22, 2011
Analysis of new US Census figures show the number of Hispanic homeowners in South Carolina and in Greenville County fell from 2000 through 2010 although the Hispanic population more that doubled. Wilfredo Leon, ...
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BLACK POLITICAL UNREST
August 18, 2011
Two Black members of Congress, one Democrat and the other Republican, are voicing concern today about circumstances facing the nation. Black California Congresswoman Maxine Waters has some advice for President Obama about blacks in America, "Pay more attention to us." Speaking at a job fair in Atlanta today, Waters said unhappiness is growing in the Black community with the nation’s first Black president. ...
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Survey: 1 In 5 Children Live In Poverty
August 17, 2011
A new survey released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization, says that child poverty in the United States increased in 38 states in the last decade. The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book shows the official child poverty rate, which is a conservative measure of economic hardship, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009, essentially returning to the same level as the early 1990s. ...
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Cornel West, Tavis Smiley On 'Poverty Tour'
August 12, 2011
PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West are travelling the country on a 16 city 'poverty tour.' Although both men have been vocal critics of the president, West insists, "It is not an anti-Obama tour." Rather, the men seek to highlight what they say is lack of effort by both the president ...
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LATINOS TO OBAMA: JUST PASSING
August 11, 2011
The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a nonpartisan Hispanic association, today gave the Obama administration a just-passing overall grade for six areas it said are critical. Two years after issuing its quadrennial Hispanic Public Policy Agenda in 2008, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda assessed the progress made in addressing the major public policy issues facing the Hispanic ...
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Minority Seniors In Crisis
August 05, 2011
Older Americans of color are being financially squeezed as their earnings and savings drop and costs continue to rise, according to a report released today by The Greenlining Institute. African American, Asian American and Latino senior citizens are economically vulnerable and getting more so because they have less access ...
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Home Ownership Spikes For CA Latinos
August 01, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of white Californians, most of them under age 45, gave up their homes in the past decade, an Orange County Register analysis of census data shows. While homeownership declined among non-Hispanic whites, it rose sharply among Latinos and Asians, the Register found. Rising population is a primary reason for the rising number of minority homeowners. ...
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Latinos Call For Obama To Seize Initiative
July 21, 2011
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) is calling on President Obama to seize what it views as an opportunity to address issues critical to the Latino community. NALEO says it wants President Obama ...
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Hunger Stalks California's Rural Minority Areas
July 18, 2011
Across California and beyond, rural unemployment is higher and incomes lower, than in nearby urban areas. Imperial County's unemployment rate in March was 30 percent, probably the state's highest. The county's economy is almost entirely dependent on agriculture and farm labor. Orange Cove and San Joaquin ...
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MINORITY CHILD HUNGER CRISIS
July 18, 2011
America's minority children have fallen further behind in the last year in a wide variety of areas, according to a report releaed today by the Children’s Defense Fund. The report also shows continuing and increasing inequality in our country. Particularly striking is the fact that children of color, who are now 44 percent of America’s children, will be the majority of children in 2019 – just eight years from now. In nine states and the District of Columbia, this is already the case. The report, The State of America’s Children 2011, says with unemployment, housing foreclosures, and hunger at historically high levels, children’s well-being is in jeopardy. ...
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Campaign Promotes Use Of Minority Banks
July 12, 2011
The National Bankers Association {NBA}, a cosortium of minority-owned banks, is teaming with a popular, nationally-syndicated radio talk show host, Warren Ballentine, to spearhead a national campaign to get minorities and other consumers in the urban areas to bank with minority banks. ...
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Treasury Expands Small Business "Main Street" Program
July 07, 2011
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that six community banks received a total of $123 million as part of the first wave of capital provided by the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF). The SBLF, which was established as part of the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama signed into law ...
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Minority Homeless Rate Drops
June 20, 2011
HUD’s annual report reveals how the Recovery Act’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) helped to mitigate homelessness in America. ...
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Black Baby Boomers Eye Uncertain Retirement
June 08, 2011
Financial planners typically say retirees will need replacement income of 70-80 percent to continue living as well as they did prior to exiting the workforce. ...
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FEDS EYE BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT
June 07, 2011
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Tornado Victims Fear Immigration Crackdown
June 01, 2011
"They thought we were with the police because of our vests, and they were worried the police would take them back to their home countries." ...
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Broad Civil Rights Coalition Lays Out Plan For 2012 Budget
May 25, 2011
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Report: CA Is "Ground Zero For Missing Children"
May 24, 2011
The drop in the state's population of young children has meant declining student enrollment and neighborhood school closures. ...
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