Roosevelt Institute, August 1, 2024, The End Of Banking History? Finishing The Unfinished Business Of Financial Reform These are not the only items on the financial reform agenda. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection (Dodd-Frank) Act contained more than 300 provisions that either expressly required or permitted agency rulemaking (Copeland 2010). As of […]
wbur, Judge Approves Carney, August 1, 2024, Nashoba Valley Closures As Steward Crisis Deepens Massachusetts officials have admonished the real estate firms for blocking deals on Steward’s hospitals by trying to extract as much money as they can from the process. “The infighting, this brinkmanship … has led us to the place where we are
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AP News, August 8, 2024, Trump And Harris Agreed To Debate On Sept. 10: Highlights From Trump’s News Conference Former President Donald Trump held a news conference Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, in which he recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris and taunted her. ABC News has confirmed that both the Harris and Trump campaigns have
Washington Post, August 5, 2024, More Americans Are Moving Into Flood And Fire Hot Spots Drawing on data from the Census Bureau and the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit that assesses climate risk, the Redfin analysis showed that the counties most exposed to floods and fires gained more population than they lost between July 2022
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, August 7, 2024, CFPB Report Finds Lenders Cramming Markup Fees And Confusing Terms Into Solar Energy Loans In conjunction with today’s report, the CFPB released a consumer advisory warning homeowners of the risky practices in the solar lending market and sharing advice for borrowers who encounter illegal activity. The U.S. Department of the
The Conversation, August 5, 2024, Racism And Discrimination Lead To Faster Aging Through Brain Network Changes, New Study Finds In our study of Black women, we found that more frequent racial discrimination was linked to more connectivity between two key regions. One, called the locus coeruleus, is a deep brain region that activates the stress response, promoting
E&E News, August 7, 2024, Former Geography Teacher Walz A ‘Self-Proclaimed GIS Nerd’ In his bid to win the White House along with Vice President Kamala Harris, it’s likely safe to say that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz doesn’t just have a plan: He probably has a map. The Democratic leader, selected this week to be
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Next City, August 7, 2024, Is Harris-Walz The First YIMBY Ticket In History? After the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed explicitly race-based zoning in 1917, the Berkeley model took off across the country as the next-best alternative for policymakers looking to maintain racial segregation. It’s still the norm in U.S. cities today, where 75% of residential-zoned
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Next City, August 8, 2024, The Supreme Court’s Grants Pass Decision Has Lit A Fire Under Homeless Advocacy Groups This alarming acceleration of threats to unhoused people has pushed homeless advocacy groups to craft a menu of strategies to protect unsheltered residents. This includes developing new model legislation to prevent criminalization and calling for more
GBH, August 7, 2024, Boston City Council Proposes Taking Over Carney Hospital By Eminent Domain“This closure would exacerbate the already overburdened health care system we have today, and it will affect every constituent in the city of Boston and beyond seeking health care services,” said Councilor John FitzGerald, whose district includes Carney Hospital. “This closure
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Politico, August 9, 2024, ‘Sitting Empty’ Vast Expanse Of Federal Land Eyed For New Housing The White House is taking a different — and more circumscribed — approach than the one outlined in Lee’s proposal. The administration effort is focused on “vacant and surplus federal lands that are within existing development zones and in metros
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AXIOS Denver, August 9, 2024, Denver Aims To Ramp Up Permanent Housing For Unsheltered Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration wants to increase the number of people moved to stable living accommodations under its All In Mile High program with a recently approved contract. Why it matters: The mayor’s administration is prioritizing permanent housing to end unsheltered
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NBC News, August 9, 2024, JPMorgan Chase Is Giving Its Employees An AI Assistant Powered By ChatGPT Maker OpenAI The technology — hailed by some as the “Cognitive Revolution” in which tasks formerly done by knowledge workers will be automated — could be as important as the advent of electricity, the printing press and the
AXIOS Nashville, August 12, 2024, Nashville Makes Progress On Affordable Housing Crisis What she’s saying: “It is a reflection of the city taking the issue of affordable housing really seriously,” Metro’s housing division director Angie Hubbard tells Axios. She says the housing situation is “dire” in Nashville as in other major cities. “It’s dire everywhere,”
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The Denver Post, August 12, 2024, After Years Of Sellers Calling Shots, Homebuyers Getting Upper Hand In Some Metro Denver NeighborhoodsMetro Denver had 2.78 months of inventory in the second quarter, and in most places, sellers still have the upper hand, Welsh said. But they don’t have the power they did in early 2021, when
