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NCRC Member Advances Housing Accessibility And Sustainability In Rural New Mexico

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For over half a century, Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation has been a trailblazer in the community development sphere, providing single and multi-family housing to farmworkers, seniors and lower-income individuals across rural New Mexico. For most of those years, executive director Rose Garcia has been at the heart and helm of the organization. A Latina […]

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Empty Shelves and the Possibility of a Recession: May 2025 Race, Jobs and the Economy Update

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Analysis of Topline Figures in the May BLS Report The economy added 177,000 jobs in April while the unemployment rate remained at 4.2%. The February and March job gains were revised down by 15,000 and 43,000, respectively.  The April job gains came primarily in the healthcare and education (+58,000), transportation and warehousing (+29,000), and leisure

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Dissecting the 2026 Skinny Budget: A Closer Look at Cuts to Economic and Equity Programs

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The Trump Administration’s fiscal plan for 2026, also known as the president’s “skinny budget,” proposes severe cuts to many programs that Americans rely on. The following cuts may have a significant impact for NCRC members:  Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Under the skinny budget, HUD will see a 46% cut in funding, including

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The Heart of Workforce Equity: Community-Based Organizations’ Crucial Role in the Workforce Development Ecosystem

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In today’s rapidly evolving labor market, many Americans need support navigating the complex education and training options that help them build the necessary skills for a changing world. These varied pathways – from credentialing programs and apprenticeships to on-the-job training – are collectively known as workforce development.  Workforce development is not just a policy buzzword,

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Swiped Away: How Rising Credit Card Fees Are Affecting Colorado’s Small Businesses

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The Colorado General Assembly has recently introduced a bill that would protect small businesses from dubious credit card swipe fees that are cutting into their profits. The Swipe Fee Fairness and Consumer Safeguards Act seeks to level the playing field for small businesses by putting an end to the practices that allow swipe fees to

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How Tariffs Drive Up Mortgage Costs and Undermine Homeownership

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The Trump Administration’s trade war continues to roil both the financial markets and key economic indicators, such as  consumer sentiment. The anxiety around the market has even spread to the US Treasury market, where the damage could cause borrowing costs for households to rise, especially for home mortgages. A bond is essentially a loan, either

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How Community Land Trusts Create Lasting Change

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Social movements have been a crucial part of every major political shift in modern history. However, in between moments of upheaval, having structures in place that can survive the whims of both politics and market forces is incredibly important in continuing the momentum of those movements for societal change.  During the Civil Rights Movement, activists

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Cultivating a Green Workforce in Bridgeport

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In 2002, Adrienne Farrar Houël returned to the United States after a successful 25-year career in international marketing and real estate development in France, Russia and Ireland “to retire,” she said, laughing at the obvious contradiction. For the past two decades, Farrar Houël and her colleagues at Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises have been anything but

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Black Developers Collective Aims to Keep the Black Dollar in the Community

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When someone spends a dollar, where does it go? The answer depends entirely on who they spent it with. If you bought something from a business, does that business buy its supplies locally or from somewhere else? When the business owner takes your money home with them, are they going around their corner to their

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Fair Housing Month Spotlight: Fighting Back with Testing and Local Action

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Every April, Fair Housing Month gives us the chance to reflect on both the progress we’ve made as a country toward realizing housing equity and the challenges that remain. Discrimination in housing has not disappeared and, in many ways, it has simply changed form. That is why the tools NCRC uses to identify and address

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Dreaming Big in Our Own Backyards At The 2025 Just Economy Conference

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Dreaming Big in Our Own Backyards: Bold, Local Action in a Hostile Federal Environment At The 2025 Just Economy Conference; a conversation about systemic racism and structural inequality and how communities can take their power back. Speakers: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Pulitzer Prize Finalist; Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, Executive

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Fellowship Programs: A Catalyst for Lasting Change and Systemic Impact

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From the United States’ earliest beginnings, progress has been hampered by the challenges of building community-level capacity, which is undermining economic mobility for most Americans. Today’s economy has created an extremely competitive workforce environment where many talented, young individuals struggle to find meaningful career pathways that align with their values.   Young professionals, those in the

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The Recessionary War on Workers: April 2025 Race, Jobs and the Economy Update

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Analysis of Topline Figures in the April BLS Report The economy added 228,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%. In the midst of a brewing trade war and talks of a potential recession, the job gains caught forecasters off guard. We should note that the reference period for the establishment survey

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Fireside Chat Between NCRC President and CEO Jesse Van Tol and National Urban League President Marc Morial At The 2025 Just Economy Conference

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NCRC President and CEO Jesse Van Tol sits down with National Urban League President Marc Morial to discuss the current political environment.

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