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Recovery Media Coverage
In the News
- “Mind the Gap: Blacks Find Jobs – and Highest Unemployment Rate” San Francisco Chronicle (June 7, 2010)
- “Rental Market Wired for Discrimination” Boston Herald (June 1, 2010)
- “Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Economic Gains” New York Times (May 30, 2010)
- “Minority entrepreneurs more optimistic” New Haven Register (May 29, 2010)
- “Stop Trying to Roll Back the Mount Laurel Affordable Housing Doctrine” NJ.com (May 28, 2010)
Archives:
- ARRA Spending
- Bank Bailout
- Contracting
- Education
- Housing/Mortgage
- Jobs
- Recession Impact
- Tracking & Transparency-
- Unemployment Funds
ARRA Spending
- “The State of Black Ohio” WOSU Radio (April 20, 2010)
- “Obama’s Black Agenda in Action” Huffington Post (March 30, 2010)
- “Chicago Forum to Discuss How Obama Can Help African American” The Washington Post (March 19, 2010)
- “A Delicate Balancing Act for the Black Agenda” The New York Times (March 18, 2010)
- “Some African-Americans Say Obama Failing to Help Black Community” Chicago Tribune (March 17, 2010)
- “john powell, Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity” C-Span (March 15, 2010)
- “Should Obama Do More for Black America?” The Guardian (March 3, 2010)
- “Stimulus’ Failure to Benefit Blacks Sparks Comparison to Days of Jim Crow” Carolina Peacemaker (March 2, 2010)
- “ARRA – One Year Later: What Happened?” Race-Talk (January 27, 2010)
- “AP IMPACT: Politics can drive stimulus priorities” The Associated Press (August 26, 2009)
- “Live Transparent or Die! New Hampshire Sets New Bar by Publishing Stim Contracts” ProPublica.org (August 20, 2009)
- “Broadband Companies to Feds: Keep Your Stimulus Money” ProPublica.org (August 14, 2009)
- “Behind Push for Stimulus Transparency, a Question Remains: Who Ensures the Numbers Are Right?” ProPublica.org (August 17, 2009)
- “Broadband Stim Dollars, Stymied by Regulations, May Bypass City Dwellers” ProPublica.org (August 18, 2009)
- “Despite ‘Cash for Clunkers,’ Retail Sales Decline in July” The New York Times (August 13, 2009)
- “Ethnic Media Urged to Monitor Stimulus Money, Spending” NewAmericanMedia.org (August 8, 2009)
- “Tussle in Tallahassee: Florida Stands Its Ground on Stimulus Spending Speed” ProPublica.org (August 13, 2009)
- “The recovery package in action” Economic Policy Institute (August 13, 2009)
- “Opportunities under the TANF Emergency Fund Created By the Federal Recovery Act” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (August 3, 2009)
- “Obama Tries to Put a Brighter Face on the Economy” The New York Times (August 4, 2009)
- “Stimulus Spending Fails to Follow Unemployment, Poverty” ProPublica.org (August 5, 2009)
- “Just 12 Percent of Stimulus Money Has Been Spent” ProPublica.org (August 5, 2009)
- “Stimulus tends to shortchange cities” The News & Observer (July 29, 2009)
- “FCC chairman has broad approach to Net access” The Los Angeles Times (July 19, 2009)
- “Contract Awarded for Construction of New Recovery.gov” Recovery.org (July 10, 2009)
- “Correcting Five Myths About the Stimulus Bill” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (July 10, 2009)
- “GAO Slams Flimsy Auditing Rules for Stimulus Dollars” ProPublica.org (July 8, 2009)
- “The Internet for everyone” Philly.com Daily News (July 8, 2009)
- “Let’s Fight for the Stimulus Money” Opinion, BlackPressUSA.com (June 17, 2009)
- “Communities Still Looking for Stimulus Relief” BlackPressUSA.com (June 9, 2009)
- “New CBC Report May Give Peek at President’s Black Agenda” BlackPressUSA.com (June 8, 2009)
- “Some Hard-Hit States Get Less Stimulus” The Wall Street Journal (June 2, 2009)
- “Tracking Stimulus Spending May Not Be as Easy as Promised” The Washington Post (May 21, 2009)
- “The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: A Resource Guide for African Americans” The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc. (May 12, 2009)
- “NC Black Press Wants Stimulus Inclusion” The Wilmington Journal (May 6, 2009)
- “White House Releases Black’100 Days’ After Stimulus Report” BlackPressUSA.com (May 2009)
- “NC NAACP Tells Governor: ‘Distribute Funds Fairly or Else’” The Wilmington Journal (April 24, 2009)
- “Concerns Raised About Black Access to Stimulus Funding” The Wilmington Journal (March 19, 2009)
- Economic Recovery Funding and the Future of Federal Policy
- Presented by john powell at meeting of the Association of Black Foundation Executives, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
- “Concerns raised about black access to stimulus funding” The Wilmington Journal (March 19, 2009)
Bank Bailout
- “Bank Failure Friday Claims Three More” ProPublica.org (August 29, 2009)
- “Obama nominates Ben Bernanke for a second Fed term” The Los Angeles Times (August 25, 2009)
- “Court Orders Federal Reserve to Disclose Emergency Loan Details” Bloomberg.com (August 25, 2009)
- “Bailout: $10.7 Billion More to Fannie Mae” ProPublica.org (August 7, 2009)
- “FDIC Bailout Will Save Banks $24 Billion” ProPublica.org (July 27, 2009)
- “Private rescue of CIT would mark shift in crisis” The Associated Press (July 20, 2009)
- “Big Estimate, Worth Little, on Bailout” The New York Times (July 20, 2009)
- “A Costly Bank Failure Friday” ProPublica.org (July 18, 2009)
- “Treasury to Use Up to $30 Billion to Buy Toxic Assets” ProPublica.org (July 9, 2009)
- “Supreme Court Holds that States May Investigate National Banks” Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (July 2, 2009)
- “CBC: Don’t Forget Minority Firms” Politico.com (March 31, 2009)
Contracting
- “Maryland Minority Business Inclusion Goals in Sight” Baltimore Business Journal (May 10, 2010)
- “Obama Orders Changes in Small Biz Contracting” WebCPA (April 28, 2010)
- “Obama Orders Aim at Fulfilling Small Business Federal Contract Goals” Florida Times-Union (April 28, 2010)
- “Bad Economy Widens Credit Gap for Minority Firms” Phoenix Business Journal (April 23, 2010)
- “Program Helps Small Businesses Get Government Work” ABC News (April 21, 2010)
- “Unemployment Rate Holds Steady, but Minorities Still Worse Off” PBS NewsHour (March 5, 2010)
- “One Year Later: Stimulus Having Unequal Impact” AFRO (February 24, 2010)
- “The Stimulus and Disadvantaged Communities: Trickling Down or Slipping Away?” Colorlines (February 24, 2010)
- “Minnesota Stimulus Dollars Bypass Black Businesses” New America Media (February 17, 2010)
- “Stimulus One Year Later: Women and Minorities Shortchanged” News Junkie Post (February 16, 2010)
- “It’s a Jim Crow Stimulus” The Toledo Journal (February 9, 2010)
- “Minority Contractors Receive Just 2 Percent of Highway Stimulus Cash” The Infrastructurist (February 4, 2010)
- “Minority Businesses Largely Left Out of Stimulus” Houston Chronicle (January 30, 2010)
- “Minority Contractors Unite to Demand Share of Stimulus Dollars” NewAmericanMedia.org (July 23, 2009)
- “Stimulus Transparency Watchdogs Keep Contract Details a Secret” ProPublica.org (August 13, 2009)
- “Colorado Stimulus Board Boosts Minority- Outreach Effort” Denver Business Journal (June 11, 2009)
- “Black Contractors Still Waiting on Stimulus Effects, Still Facing Barriers” The Wilmington Journal (June 4, 2009)
- “Gov. Perdue Orders Stimulus Support” The Wilmington Journal (May 25, 2009)
- “For Some Stimulus Contractors, a Blemished Past” ProPublica (May 21, 2009)
- “LA County May be Failing to Meet Minority Contract Goals” Los Angeles Times (May 12, 2009)
- “Maryland Trying to Open Up Road Projects to More Minority Firms” Baltimore Business Journal (May 8, 2009)
- “Will Small Businesses Cash in on Stimulus Dollars? HispanicBussiness.com (April 2009)
Education
- “Recession, State and Local Budget Deficits Threaten Public Schools and Equity in Education” Race-Talk (April 29, 2010)
- “School Districts Warn of Even Deeper Teacher Cuts” The New York Times (April 20, 2010)
- “Education Spending in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Stimulating the Status Quo” The Heritage Foundation (April 16, 2010)
- “Charter Schools and Segregation” Detroit Free Press (April 2, 2010)
- “Race to the Top Education Grant Winners Announced” The Stir (March 31, 2010)
- “Just in Time: Obama Targets HBCUs For Increased Spending” Seattle Medium (March 10, 2010)
- “It’s Time for this State to Close the Achievement Gap” The Olympian (February 11, 2010)
- “Madison School District appears to be Softening Stance Toward Charter Schools” The Capital Times (February 10, 2010)
- “New Report Explains that Charter Schools’ Political Success is a Civil Rights Failure” The Civil Rights Project (February 4, 2010)
- “Competition, Civil Rights, and Change Theory” Huffington Post (January 30, 2010)
- “Why We’re Failing Our Schools” Time (January 28, 2010)
- “Court Win for Affirmative Action” Inside Higher Ed (August 18, 2009)
- “Dangling Money, Obama Pushes Education Shift” The New York Times (August 16, 2009)
- “Replacing No Child Left Behind” Economic Policy Institute (August 13, 2009)
- “Obama Education Dept. Announces Race to the Top” New American (July 24, 2009)
- “Community colleges central to Obama’s plan for U.S. jobs” USAToday (July 14, 2009)“
- “Facing Deficits, Some States Cut Summer School” The New York Times (July 1, 2009)
- “States, Districts in Delicate Dance on Stimulus” Education Weeks (July 1, 2009)
- “Stimulus Won’t Rebuild Dilapidated School Attended by Obama Letter Writer” ProPublica (June 11, 2009)
- “Michigan Collects $1B to Boost Education” The Detroit Free Press (June 3, 2009)
- “Taking Off the Rose-Colored Glasses: States Benefit Differently from Education Recovery Spending” Center for American Progress (May 21, 2009)
- “Advocates Urge Education Secretary to Improve School Discipline, Achievement Through Stimulus Funds” Dignity in Schools Press Release (April 17, 2009)
Housing/Mortgage
- “Levels of Housing Discrimination Remain at Historic High in 2009″ PR Newswire (May 26, 2010)
- “Foreclosure Prevention Gains Little Ground” RealEstateRama (May 18, 2010)
- “Crisis Cut U.S. Minority Mortgage Access: Study” Reuters (May 13, 2010)
- “Changing Suburbia: Leaving Cities, Working Poor and Unemployed Find New Isolation” In These Times (May 12, 2010)
- “Chicago Renters Hit Harder by Foreclosures than Home Owners” Chicago Sun Times (May 5, 2010)
- “Daunting Task Ahead to Secure Detroit’s Future” Taiwan News (May 5, 2010)
- “Housing Discrimination Filings Down, Still High” WCPN ideastream (May 4, 2010)
- “Wharton Testifies in Washington that Predatory Lending is New Discrimination” Memphis Commercial Appeal (April 29, 2010)
- “Fighting Back from the Foreclosure Blast Zone” CNNMoney (April 28, 2010)
- “Discrepancies Detailed in Minority Foreclosures” The Washington Post (April 28, 2010)
- “City Changes Tactics on Wells Fargo Lawsuit” The Baltimore Sun (April 21, 2010)
- “City Amends Wells Fargo Lawsuit” AFRO (April 15, 2010)
- “NAACP Dismisses Lawsuit Against Wells Fargo” MarketWatch (April 8, 2010)
- “Fixing the Foreclosure Crisis Facing Minority Populations” Huffington Post (April 2, 2010)
- “NCRC Study Finds Troubling Trends with Loan Mods” National Mortgage Professional Magazine (March 30, 2010)
- “Survey Finds Racial Disparities Under White Anti-Foreclosure Program” The Washington Post (March 30, 2010)
- “Expanded Mortgage Aid Should Cut Foreclosures” USA Today (March 30, 2010)
- “Housing Crisis Drives Families into Overcrowded Living Conditions” Chicago Tribune (March 28, 2010)
- “Minority Real Estate Groups Introduce Plan to Address Housing Crisis” DSNews (March 12, 2010)
- “Study Finds Median Wealth for Single Black Women at $5″ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 9, 2010)
- “Minority Real Estate Groups Make Recommendations to Address Housing Crisis” Business Wire (March 3, 2010)
- “A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods” The New York Times (February 18, 2010)
- “Foreclosures Shown to Erode Stability of Latino Children and Families” National Mortgage Professional Magazine (February 17, 2010)
- “Study Centers on Foreclosure’ Stress on Family Life” The Washington Post (February 16, 2010)
- “Inheriting Foreclosure” Huffington Post (February 16, 2010)
- “Hispanics hard Hit by Foreclosures, 1.3 Million Face It” Huliq News (February 16, 2010)
- “Latino ‘Foreclosure Generation’ Devastated” The Orange County Register (February 16, 2010)
- “New Research Shows Re-Redlining in Five California Cities” RealEstateRama (February 11, 2010)
- “The Housing Crisis: How Did We Get Here? Where Do We Go?” Shelterforce (February 9, 2010)
- “In Brooklyn, Mortgage Crisis Eats Away Wealth of Several Generations of Hispanics” Feet In Two Worlds (February 8, 2010)
- “To Boost Sales of Foreclosure, FHA Suspends Anti-flipping Rules” The Washington Post (January 30, 2010)
- “More Than Two Years into the Foreclosure Crisis, Homeowners Are Faced With the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” Huffington Post (January 2, 2010)
- “NCLR and Freddie Mac Partner on Innovative Effort to Help Latinos Avoid Foreclosure” RisMedia (January 29, 2010)
- “HUD Funds $26.3m for Fair Housing Programs, Investigations” Housing Wire (January 22, 2010)
- “Loan-Mod Program Helps Housing Market” The Wall Street Journal (January 19, 2010)
- “Housing Bias Persists, Fueled by the Internet” Gotham Gazette (August 31, 2009)
- “Shaking Up Suburbia” The American Prospect (August 25, 2009)
- “Countrywide’s Court Loss Complicates Mortgage Modifications” The Atlantic (August 20, 2009)
- “Fed Extends TALF Program for Commercial Real Estate” Bloomberg (August 17, 2009)
- “Westchester Agrees to Add Housing in Desegregation Pact” The New York Times (August 10, 2009)
- “GAO Issues Critical Report of Federal Regulators Enforcement of Fair Lending Laws” House Committee on Financial Services Press Release (August 11, 2009)
- “Mortgage modifications moving at snail’s pace” MSNBC (August 4, 2009)
- “Gov’t mortgage partners sued for abuses” The Associated Press (August 6, 2009)
- “Why efforts to stem foreclosures are failing” Daily Finance (July 28, 2009)
- “Receivers’ Catch: Foreclosures” The Wall Street Journal (July 29, 2009)
- “Civil rights leaders talk economy, housing at La Raza conference” People’s Weekly World (July 29, 2009)
- “Ten Myths about Subprime Mortgages” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (July 23, 2009)
- “HUD Makes $26.3 Million Available To Fight Housing Discrimination” HUD.GOV (July 23, 2009)
- “Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers” The New York Times (July 20, 2009)
- “Secretary Donovan awards over $1 Billion in Recovery Act funds to jump-start affordable housing construction in 26 states” HUD News (June 30, 2009)
- “City to Seek Neighborhood Improvement Funding” Memphis Daily News (July 7, 2009)
- “Baltimore to award nearly $10M in stimulus funds to help the homeless” Baltimore Busiess Journal (July 6, 2009)
- “City to Make Case Against Wells Fargo” The Baltimore Sun (June 29, 2009)
- “$100,000 CRA Challenge” The Big Picture (June 29, 2009)
- “Paper Avalanche Buries Plan to Stem Foreclosures” The New York Times (June 28, 2009)
- “’Vanilla’ Home Loans Could Help Homeowners” Associated Press, Yahoo News (June 21, 2009)
- “A Crackdown on Rescue Schemes” The New York Times (June 19, 2009)
- “More Money Allocated for Foreclosure Relief” ProPublica.com (June 17, 2009)
- “Mayors Helping to Solve Housing Crisis” The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 15, 2009)
- “Housing Discrimination Complaints Are Up, Says HUD” DiversityInc (June 15, 2009)
- “Avoiding Firms That Prey On Troubled Homeowners” The New York Times (June 12, 2009)
- “Bank Accused of Pushing Mortgage Deals on Blacks” The New York Times (June 6, 2009)
- “States get $135M for Housing” The Washington Times (June 4, 2009)
- “Foreclosures: No End in Sight” The New York Times (June 1, 2009)
- “Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure” The New York Times (May 25, 2009)
Jobs
- “Fingering Illegal Immigrants for Black Jobless Crisis” The Huffington Post (May 8, 2010)
- “The Congressional Black Caucus and the Politics of Summer Jobs” The Washington Post (May 4, 2010)
- “Administration Must Acknowledge and Address the Growing Crisis in the Black Community” Race-Talk (April 16, 2010)
- “Obama Ignores Black Joblessness at His Own Peril” USA Today (April 7, 2010)
- “Jobless Numbers Show No Evidence of a Post-Racial America” The Washington Independent” (April 6, 2010)
- “A Black Agenda That Works for Everyone: Jobs and ‘Targeted Universalism’” Working in These Times (March 31, 2010)
- “The State Of Black (And Hispanic) America” National Public Radio (March 25, 2010)
- “Jobs: African-American Unemployment Rate Drops” America’s News Online (March 12, 2010)
- “Obama Lobbied on Black Unemployment, Immigration” Reuters (March 11, 2010)
- “Unemployment Rate Holds Steady, but Minorities Still Worse Off” PBS NewsHour (March 5, 2010)
- “Tailoring Job Relief To America’s Diverse Communities” The Washington Post (March 2, 2010)
- “Will the New Jobs Bill Help Hardest Hit Areas” Race-Talk (February 26, 2010)
- “Black Frustrations: Obama in the White House Creates Strange Consequences” Chicago Tribune (February 24, 2010)
- “Congressional Black Caucus Frustrated with Jobs Legislation” The Washington Post (February 23, 2010)
- “How We Avoid Dealing with Poverty” Huffington Post (February 17, 2010)
- “Money sent home to Latin America and the Caribbean Shrinks 11 Percent” Medill Reports: Chicago (February 17, 2010)
- “Is Obama Failing the African-American Community on Economic Issues” The Washington Independent (February 17, 2010)
- “Was Stimulus Good for Ohio?” The Columbus Dispatch (February 17, 2010)
- “Obama, Civil Rights Leaders Discuss Improving Conditions for Black America” The Washington Post (February 10, 2010)
- “Black Leaders Intend to Press Congress for Minority Hiring in Jobs Legislation” The Hill (February 10, 2010)
- “Obama, Black Leaders Focus on Economic Hard Times” The Washington Post (February 10, 2010)
- “Promise Broken? Low-Income Workers Find Road To Green Jobs Tough Going” Equal Voice (February 1, 2010)
- “Opportunity not so Equal” In These Times (January 29, 2010)
- “Obama’s Stimulus Can’t Slow Black , Latino Unemployment” New America Media (January 29, 2010)
- “Blacks in Retreat” The New York Times (January 18, 2010)
- “Mi Casa Gets $3.6M Stimulus Grant for Job Training” Denver Business Journal (January 13, 2010)
- “We Need a Fair Jobs Policy” Huffington Post (January 13, 2010)
- “Green Jobs Training Available for 400 Workers” Sun-Sentinel (January 13, 2010)
- “Economic Stimulus Better for Whites – Blacks and Latinos Continue to Struggle” Common Dreams (January 13, 2010)
- “Commerce and Agriculture Announce Strong Demand for First Round of Funding to Bring Broadband, Jobs to More Americans” National Telecommunication and Information Administration (August 27, 2009)
- “Recovery won’t improve unemployment” CNNMoney.com (August 25, 2009)
- “New jobless claims rise unexpectedly to 576K” The Associated Press (August 20, 2009)
- “Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis” The Washington Post (August 18, 2009)
- “Nearly six unemployed workers per job but ratio does not worsen” Economic Policy Institute (August 12, 2009)
- “Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries” The New York Times (August 6, 2009)
- “U.S. Payroll Losses Slow, Unemployment Rate Declines” Bloomberg.com (August 7, 2009)
- “Fed Sees Signs of Hope for Economy: Outlook for Jobs Remains Dismal” The Washington Post (July 30, 2009)
- “Bernanke Sees High Jobless Rate, Even in Recovery” The New York Times (July 26, 2009)
- “Help Wanted’ counting stimulus jobs” The Associated Press (July 28, 2009)
- “Millions of workers will benefit from minimum wage increase” Economic Policy Institute (July 13, 2009)
- “E-Verify Will Make It Tougher for Americans to Get Jobs” CivilRights.org (July 13, 2009)
- “Job Losses Show Wider Racial Gap in New York” They New York Times (July 12, 2009)
- “Where the Workers Are” ProPublica.org (July 8, 2009)
- “Fourteen States Now Have Double Digit Unemployment” Economic and Policy Institute News (June 23, 2009)
- “Stimulus Dollars Lift Hopes for Teen Jobs This Summer” The St. Louis American (June 8, 2009)
- “State’s Unemployment Insurance Funds Founder After Years of Poor Planning” ProPublica (June 4, 2009)
- “Stimulus Jobs Likely to Be Unevenly Distributed Among Races” Diverse Issues in Higher Education (May 19, 2009)
- “Stimulus Watch; Jobs, but not where needed most” Associated Press (May 11, 2009)
- “Shortage of Skilled Workers Hurts D.C.” The Washington Post (April 30, 2009)
Recession Impact
- “Hard Times Hit US Blacks, Latinos Harder Than Whites” AFP (March 24, 2010)
- “Lessons from Black History: The Present is Reflection of the Past” Huffington Post (February 18, 2010)
- “Minority Businesses Fight To Stay Afloat” NPR (August 25, 2009)
- “The 2009 budget deficit—How did we get here?” Economic Policy Institute (August 14, 2009)
- “U.S. Posted Record Year-to-Date Budget Gap in July” Bloomberg.com (August 12, 2009)
- “Economists Call for Bernanke to Stay, Say Recession Is Over” The Wall Street Journal (August 11, 2009)
- “Fed likely to keep key interest rate at record low” The Associated Press (August 9, 2009)
- “Recession Worse Than Prior Estimates, Revisions Show” Bloomberg.com (July 31, 2009)
- “The Fed’s Exit Strategy” The Wall Street Journal (July 21, 2009)
- “The recession is not colorblind” Salon.com (July 15, 2009)
- “New Report Shows Racial Disparities in 401(k) Plans” CivilRights.org (July 14, 2009)
- “Minority certification gives businesses a slight edge” Bradenton Herald (July 14, 2009)
- “Payday Loans Squeeze Millions in Fees from Blacks and Latinos” BlackPressUSA.com (July 8, 2009)
- “Cities Lose Out on Road Funds From Federal Stimulus” The New York Times (July 8, 2009)
- “Treasury Picks Managers for Toxic Asset Program” ProPublica.org (July 8, 2009)
- “Nine years of job growth wiped out” Economic Policy Institute (July 2, 2009)
- “Michigan Braces for a Surge in Welfare Applications” The Wall Street Journal (June 26, 2009)
- “FDR’s Lessons for Obama” Time (June 24, 2009)
- “Fourteen States Now Have Double Digit Unemployment” Economic and Policy Institute News (June 23, 2009)
- “Weathering the Storm: Black Male Employment in the Recession” Streaming Video of the Panel, Center for American Progress (June 19,2009)
- “Recession Hurting U.S. Cities at ‘Radically Varying Levels’” The Huffington Post (June 17, 2009)
- “The Best and Worst Cities for Recession Recovery” ABC News (June 12, 2009)
- “Child Homelessness in the Economic Crisis” Center for American Progress (June 11, 2009)
- “(FED) Agencies Release List of Distressed or Underserved Nonmetropolitan Middle-Income Geographies” Forex Hound (June 9, 2009)
- “Women Breadwinners More Important than Ever” Center for American Progress (June 5, 2009)
- “Recession’s Impact on Native America Varies With Tribes” Indian Country Today (May 18, 2009)
Tracking and Transparency
- “Black Support High For Obama’s Race-neutral Stance” CBS News (March 20, 2010)
- “Stimulus Funds Cluster in Cities, Bypass Latino Communities” NewsHour (March 10, 2010)
- “One Year Later: A Report Card on the Stimulus Money” Christian Science Monitor (March 10, 2010)
- “For Ethnic Communities, a Year of Stimulus Not Enough” New America Media (February 20, 2010)
- “Racial Disparities in Disbursement of Stimulus Funding” NewsBlaze (February 18, 2010)
- “One Year After Stimulus, Blacks and Latinos Still Struggling” The Huffington Post (February 16, 2010)
- “The President’s 2011 Budget Priorities: Cut Poverty and Promote Opportunity” The Huffington Post (February 11, 2010)
- “Advocates Struggle to Measure Stimulus Relief for Minority Businesses” The Washington Post (January 18, 2010)
- “Stimulus Progress Bar: Spending Varies Greatly by Agency” ProPublica.org (September 2, 2009)
- “Stimulus Lobbying Disclosure Promise Still Not Fulfilled” ProPublica.org (September 1, 2009)
- “Lawmakers Ask Fed To Extend TALF, Boost Transparency” CNNMoney.com (July 31, 2009)
- “Fed to Strengthen Bank Examinations With Expert Teams” Bloomberg.com (August 4, 2009)
- ”Obama administration withholds data on clunkers” The Associated Press (August 4, 2009)
- “Fed ral Rec rds Mi sing Imp rtant Data” Subsidyscope.com (August 5, 2009)
- “City Spends to Aid Minority Firms but Falls Short” The New York Times (July 29, 2009)
- “Minnesota Census Block Level Data on Connected’s Broadband Maps” TMCnet.com (July 27, 2009)
- “President Obama Proposes Better Consumer Protection” The Kirwan Institute (July 20, 2009)
- “Vote on Consumer Agency Delayed” The Washington Post (July 23, 2009)
- “Administration unveils financial overhaul bill” The Washington Post (July 22, 2009)
- “Obama Proposes Council for Financial-System Risk” Bloomberg.com (July 22, 2009)
- “Some Bailout Transparency Promises Remain Unkept” ProPublica.org (July 14, 2009)
- “Barack Obama to create Consumer Financial Protection Agency” Politico.com (June 16, 2009)
- “Administration Releases Job Stimulus Counting Rules” ProPublic.org (June 24, 2009)
