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Climate-displaced Americans face discrimination

Disaster relief isn't built to support the "staggering" number of climate-displaced Americans.

Axios · Apr 15, 2023

After climbing for 6 years, homeownership rate for single women fell last year

CHICAGO — Ndidi A. Okakpu has been trying to buy her first home for three years.

Chicago Tribune · Apr 10, 2023

A different kind of mortgage crisis

Banks are retreating from the mortgage market

Axios · Apr 8, 2023

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Biden's argument for student loan forgiveness is borrowers suffered financially during the pandemic. It's more complicated than that

The Biden administration is defending its widespread debt relief by saying that the pandemic “profoundly disrupted” the economy. New research suggests it’s not that simple.

Fortune · Jan 9, 2023

Chicago attracting a healthy amount of investment, but all neighborhoods aren’t equal

Chicago attracted a lot of investment over the past decade, but how well its economy serves residents depends a lot on where they live. Between 2010 and 2020, neighborhoods where most residents are Black received a fraction of the overall investment recorded in mostly white neighborhoods, according to a new…

Chicago Tribune · Dec 9, 2022

How single-family lending drives neighborhood inequality, Pritzker signs SAFE-T Act and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 7, 2022

Single-family lending drives neighborhood disparities, new report finds

A report from the Urban Institute finds that the more Black residents who live in a Chicago neighborhood, the less investment the area saw compared with predominantly white neighborhoods.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 7, 2022

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Knoxville's ingrained health inequality

Health inequalities run deep in Knoxville — and the health system and debt collectors perpetuate the inequality

Salon · Nov 15, 2022

Jeff Bezos steps up 'flashy' giving while ex-wife quietly donates billions

Jeff Bezos' $100 million award to Dolly Parton is something of a puzzle to Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

Tribune News Service · Nov 15, 2022

Knoxville’s Black community endured deeply rooted racism. Now there is medical debt

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black residents of this city on the Tennessee River could be seen only in the basement of Knoxville General Hospital. They were barred from the city’s other three medical centers.

Tribune News Service · Nov 1, 2022

In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation

Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.

WEKU · Oct 27, 2022

Black families fall further behind on homeownership

Some cities and states are trying to boost Black homeownership, which dropped to a 60-year low even before the economic turmoil wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service · Oct 13, 2022

Few places have more medical debt than Dallas-Fort Worth, but hospitals there are thriving

PROSPER, Texas — Almost everything about the opening of the 2019 Prosper High School Eagles’ football season was big.

Tribune News Service · Oct 6, 2022

Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt

Across the U.S., many hospitals have become wealthy, even as their bills force patients to make gut-wrenching sacrifices. This pattern is especially stark for health care systems in Dallas-Fort Worth.

WEKU · Sep 28, 2022

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The Guardian - US · Sep 26, 2022

‘The kids are just happier’: could California’s universal school meal program start a trend?

Parents, teachers and anti-hunger advocates hail new free-meal system, saying it improves academic performance and wellbeing

Orlando Sentinel · Aug 24, 2022

Online mortgage marketplace deploys computer power to fight lending bias

Evan Leaphart of Miami is the founder of Kiddie Kredit, an app that helps kids understand credit scores and financial responsibility through chores. But when it came to buying his own house this year, Leaphart felt lost.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 13, 2022

Michael Hiltzik: With a noxious family leave proposal, GOP pretends it's still pro-women despite antiabortion laws

Having achieved its long-held goal of eviscerating women's reproductive health rights, the Republican Party is now hard at work pretending that it's about to enter a new era of pro-women and pro-family policy.

Roll Call · Jul 11, 2022

Insurers propose premium increases as subsidy cliff looms - Roll Call

The expiration of subsidies approved as part of a COVID-19 response package passed last year is expected to also drive up health care costs.

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The Guardian - US · Jun 22, 2022

Conservatives claim canceling US student debt will be expensive. They’re wrong

If Joe Biden signed an executive order tomorrow, the government won’t pay out a dime – federal student loan debt is already included in the national debt

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

100 million people in America are saddled with health care debt

Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated.

WEKU · Jun 16, 2022

Sick and struggling to pay, 100 million people in the U.S. live with medical debt

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

Reason · Jun 13, 2022

Does Affordable Housing Make the Surrounding Neighborhood Less Affordable?

A Urban Institute research brief found that affordable housing developments in Alexandria, Virginia, were associated with a small increase in surrounding property values.

Roll Call · Apr 5, 2022

Census Bureau director on 'transformational' changes — and SXSW - Roll Call

Robert L. Santos wants to eliminate silos the Census Bureau has built between data products it produces for other agencies.

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022

LOCALIZE IT: A guide to Medicaid coverage losses after COVID

Later this year, federal health authorities are expected to declare an end to the public health emergency around the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022

End of COVID may bring major turbulence for US health care

When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for U.S. health care

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