The Senate banking committee just okayed a massive overhaul of the country’s financial services laws, and comminity advocates are worried it will scuttle existing fair lending rules.
South Bronx activists successfully fought Browning Ferris Industries plans to site a medical waste incinerator in their neighborhood–and their reward is a proposed plant to sterlize medical waste.
Employees at neighborhood green grocers protest being regularly shortchanged on overtime and the minimum wage because they’re immigrants.
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