This Wednesday, June 15, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in his Bottom Line Conversations webinar series. In this edition, he will talk with Michelle Holder, the outgoing president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. The economy is on everyone's minds right now. When will inflation subside? Will strong labor markets continue to boost wages for Black workers and reduce the unemployment gap with white workers? How significant is it — not just symbolic — that for the first time ever there are multiple Black members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors? Join us for a Bottom Line conversation touching on these questions and more with Afro Latina Economist Michelle Holder, outgoing president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Holder has spent her career studying racial and gender discrimin
This Wednesday, May 18, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for a flash webinar that gathers a panel of experts to discuss what effects the proposed CRA regulation changes are likely to have on access to basic banking services, credit, community development lending, small business lending and home mortgage lending in LMI communities, especially Black and Brown communities. This latest in Next City’s Bottom Line Conversations webinar series will be a conversation with Ron Homer of RBC Global Asset Management, Horacio Mendez of Woodstock Institute, and Jaime Weisberg of the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development. The chance to significantly overhaul banking regulations comes around perhaps once in a generation — or maybe twice. Two weeks ago the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a proposed set of overhauled regulations under the Community