USA Today, June 3, 2024, Fearless Fund Blocked From Giving Grants Only To Black Women In Victory For DEI Critics In a closely watched civil rights case, a panel on the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals blocked Fearless Fund from awarding $20,000 grants to businesses owned by Black women while the case is litigated, siding with conservative activist

Bloomberg, June 3, 2024, NYC Gets 150,000 Applications In 12 Hours For Affordable Housing More than 150,000 households filed applications in a span of 12 hours for a chance to join New York City’s waiting list for a federal program that subsidizes rent for low-income families. While roughly 100,000 New York City households currently use the voucher

The New York Times, June 1, 2024, They’re Asian. They’re American. But, They Wonder, Are They Asian American? When Dinesh Nepal first arrived in the United States in 2010, he had never heard of the term “Asian American.” He knew that he was of Asian descent. He grew up in a refugee camp in Nepal

The New York Times, May 31, 2024, Alzheimer’s Takes A Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds Long before people develop dementia, they often begin falling behind on mortgage payments, credit card bills and other financial obligations, new research shows. A team of economists and medical experts at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

CNN, June 4, 2024, CEOs Are Making Almost 200 Times What Workers Are CEOs are raking in fat pay packages as the US stock market booms. Bosses have always made more money than workers. But the gap between CEOs and employees is growing. The median CEO in the S&P 500 was paid 196 times as much as

Axios, June 5, 2024, Health Insurers Take On The Affordability Crisis — In Housing Health insurers are investing hundreds of millions of dollars into building new affordable housing units. Why it matters: The housing affordability crisis is a major health care concern, since housing instability is tied to poorer health. Insurers say their investments will translate to healthier

KFF Health News, May 29, 2024, Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly An A Grade — Even When It Reports Failure A Tennessee agency that is supposed to hold accountable and grade the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly awards full credit on dozens of quality-of-care measurements as long as it reports any value — regardless of