Banks’ Embrace of Jumbo Mortgages Means Fewer Loans for Blacks, Hispanics
NewsTaco
June 2, 2016
*This is the kind of story that tends to fly under the radar. Banks now have a preference for “jumbo” mortgages, those for more than $417,000. They are less of a […]
Latinos will outspend millennials by 2020
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May 3, 2016
*Millennials? ppfftt . . . Check it out. VL By Tonya Garcia, Market Watch [tweet_dis]Hispanic growth in income and population across all ages will drive increases in consumer spending that […]
Julián Castro pushes back against liberal critics
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April 25, 2016
*Castro on criticism of his handling of HUD’s Distressed Asset Stabilization Program: “Just shouting ‘Wall Street,’ sloganeering in a way, does not go to the merits of the program and how […]
Silicon Valley subcontracting makes income inequality worse, report finds
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March 31, 2016
*It’s not that there aren’t Latinos doing fantastic work in tech, it’s that Silicon Valley, try as it may to change, is still blind to communities of color. So the […]