Honored to host Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman at our Financial Equity Summit where she addressed the ongoing attacks on DEI, persistent pay disparities facing women of color, and offered a powerful defense of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. @itsafronomics.bsky.social photos: @lensofwes on Instagram

Great event in DC yesterday co-sponsored by @aspeninstitute.bsky.social and Responsible Business Lending Coalition on the need for truth-in-lending legislation to rein in certain fintechs and merchant cash advance companies that prey on small business owners with undisclosed high APRs. #PFEinDCweek

Read this excellent piece by @riquier.bsky.social in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

We elevated equity this yesr with our first ever awards for innovation in mortgage lending, small business lending and responsive banking services Congrats! financialequity.net/announcement...

Join us! #financialequity

Our latest small business lending report is out today showing access to capital gaps for businesses in our Gateway Cities. Over one-third of businesses in the Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities are in low-income tracts but receive just 22.9% of the number of loans from financial institutions.

Whether it's Tim Walz expanding his state's school lunch program or Matt Gaetz giving cocaine and Ecstasy to underage sex workers, both sides have taken controversial approaches to feeding children.

New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8. If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Democrats’ Electoral College Squeeze

In the future, even winning the former “Blue Wall” states won’t be enough for the party’s presidential nominees.

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Are you LGBTQ+, or have LGBTQ+ family and friends? Here’s some advice from GLAD Law to prepare and protect yourself for the upcoming Trump presidency. At the link: www.baywindows.com/story.php?ch...

Information for LGBTQ People and Families in Anticipation of a Second Trump Administration

Many of us are still processing the results of the presidential election and are worried about what a second Trump Administration will mean for us and our loved ones.

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Good read on how public land should be put to work for the public good of housing creation. In my 1st 100 days as mayor, we did a land audit (www.boston.gov/housing/city...) to identify City-owned parcels for housing & we’re already seeing results. A few examples ⬇️

‘What could be better than having free land?: How 112,000 publicly owned acres could help solve the housing crisis - The Boston Globe

A new report estimates that developing just a fraction of publicly owned land in Greater Boston could make room for 85,000 new homes.

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FDIC unbanked survey is out today. The unbanked rate is down modestly from 2021 to 2023 (4.5 percent to 4.2). However, unbanked rates among households of color remained several times higher than the unbanked rate among White households.