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Getting to the Heart of the Opioid Crisis

4Site — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:07:12 +0000

In some ways, dealing with the opioid epidemic is a natural fit for community development groups. At the heart, it’s often a problem of poverty: a lack of jobs and opportunities. Here's how CDCs are ...

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Community Finance Leaders Bust Myths about Rural Poverty

4Site — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:19:24 +0000

An article in Shelterforce features an interview with two community development finance leaders, Bill Bynum and Jim King, who explain how rural poverty is often misunderstood.

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Changing the Way We Think About Poor Rural Communities

4Site — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:00:22 +0000

Rural communities are very different places—separated by climate, geography, and often race. But in many other ways, these communities are far more similar than different. We speak with Bill Bynum ...

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Shifting our Thinking About Rural Coverage

4Site — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:09:58 +0000

Shelterforce has had its comfort zones, and we’ve largely stayed within them. But it was time to shift our thinking so rural areas were more clearly part of the fold.

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There is an Emergency at the Border. It’s Poverty.

4Site — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:57:18 +0000

Targeted investments that address persistent poverty are necessary and should supersede financial support of a border wall.

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CRA reform crucial for tackling rural poverty

4Site — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:16:19 +0000

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently visited Mississippi Valley State University, a public, historically black university in the small town of Itta Bena. The trip marked the first official visit by a sitting chair of the Fed to the Mississippi Delta.

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The Cavalry Is Us: Civil Rights and Cooperative Action

4Site — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:11:38 +0000

Recently while exploring the newly opened Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, I was drawn to a 1908 quote from Booker T. Washington: “It was a novel thing to see colored people doing their own banking, owning dry goods and grocery stores and real estate businesses in the way that these Mississippi Negroes do.”

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