How Can We Catch Up? Mortgage Denials Stack the Deck Against Black and Hispanic Buyers How Can We Catch Up? Mortgage Denials Stack the Deck Against Black and Hispanic Buyers
The American dream of homeownership is not an equal opportunity ambition. Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be denied mortgages or get pricier loans.
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The American dream of homeownership is not an equal opportunity ambition.
Black and Hispanic home buyers are more frequently denied mortgages than white buyers even when their financial pictures are similar, according to a realtor.com® analysis of 2019 mortgage data. When they are able to secure mortgages, Black and Hispanic borrowers are more likely to pay higher fees and interest rates on their loans than white and Asian borrowers.
Hollywood Unions Join AFL-CIO Push for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Public Policy Agenda
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Hollywood’s major unions have signed on with the AFL-CIO-affiliated push to advance public policy initiatives involving diversity, equity and inclusion issues.
The broad goals of the campaign spearheaded by the Department for Professional Employees (DPE), a coalition of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO, is to strengthen collective bargaining and copyright protections and the state and federal level. On Thursday, a clutch of entertainment industry union representatives gathered for a virtual news conference to detail the policy proposals and underscore the urgency for the need for action to better protect middle-class and low-rung workers.
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