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Credit checks are screening blacks, Latinos out of jobs

As black America continues to struggle with disproportionate unemployment rates, a new research report draws an important connection between accessing employment and credit checks. More »

Time for new leadership at housing finance agency

Business groups with an axe to grind against the Obama Administration, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, like to push the idea that "uncertainty" over government actions is the monkey on the economy's back. More »

Reflecting on Trayvon Martin one year after his murder

"We're here to let the community, and particularly teenagers, know that they have a right to walk in peace without being followed, without being harmed and without being killed." Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin More »