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Report: Fraud Common Among Top Debt Buyers

In addition to shoddy mortgages, deed theft and usurious payday loans, there's another predator sucking money out of low income neighborhoods of color: debt buyers. According to a study released…

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News Uncategorized

4th & 8th Graders Get National Report Card

The reading abilities of New York City fourth graders are improving, according to the results of a national test released Thursday, but eighth graders’ scores remain virtually unchanged.Since 2002, the…

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Poll: New Yorkers Fear Becoming Homeless

A study released today by the Institute for Children and Poverty, a research and advocacy organization, finds homelessness is a major factor in the lives of New Yorkers. A third…

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Housing and Homelessness

Banks Redline Minority Communities Again

Communities of color were flooded with mortgages and home equity loans in the first half of the decade. Not anymore, according to a new study.

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Billboard Owner Censors Marijuana Reform Ad

The ad would have cited the hypocrisy of arresting users when nearly half of all New Yorkers, including Bloomberg, have tried the drug.

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Inside Schools Designed For Black and Latino Boys

A new report answers the question: What does a good single sex school for boys of color do, and why does it do it?

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Economy

Some See Racial Impact From Mass Transit Funding Crisis

With most U.S. transit systems considering service cuts or fare hikes, some advocates are painting the push for better federal funding not in terms of what’s “green” but what’s black…

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ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

Group Wants UN Scrutiny Of U.S. Black Unemployment

As the United Nation’s Human Rights Council embarks on a review of the United States, some advocates say high black joblessness is a mark against America.

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