Copeland will talk about her career in financial empowerment and how it’s culminated in working with minority credit unions, particularly Black credit unions, around the country to ramp up their ability to lend. As Next City has reported, Black credit unions are more numerous than other minority credit unions, but have had more difficulty making loans to their members than other minority credit unions do, or credit unions in general do. If Black credit unions loaned out at volumes equivalent to their peer institutions, they'd have more than a billion dollars more in loans on their books. Credit unions can’t solve everything when it comes to racial equity in banking and access to credit. But what can they solve? And why are they still worth the support that Copeland and her programs are providing to them? Next City’s series “The Bottom Line” explores scalable solutions for problems related to affordability, inclusive economic growth and access
Join Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in his webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.
Watch Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello in the latest webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work. On Wednesday, January 19, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in a webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work. The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful yet least understood economic institutions in the world. How does it make its most important decisions, and how do those decisions affect communities of color? We’ll hear from two guests with particular insight on the Fed’s inner workings and impact. Claudia Sahm, founder of Stay-at-Home Macro (SAHM) Consulting, is a former section chief in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Fed. She has intimate knowledge of how the Fed leadership makes decision
Watch Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello in the latest webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.
We didn’t think it possible, but 2021 has tried its best to outdo 2020. The year kicked off with an attempted overthrow of democracy and seems defined by the scope of realities illogically denied: election results, vaccine efficacy, climate change, institutional racism. At Next City, our reporters forgo the obvious stories that enumerate the wrongs. Instead, they acknowledge those wrongs, then flip the script to center the people who work to make cities places of collective liberation. Despite the year’s dark narrative, our journalists uncovered many inspiring stories, including the demonstrated success and gathering momentum of guaranteed income; the inroads made to lower rates of evictions and homelessness; and the power of people who organize to counter big corporations. Join a panel of Next City reporters as they dig into the powerful stories that inspired them this year, and the stories they can’t wait to unfold in 2022. This conversation, moderated b