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China Imposes Sanctions on U.S. Data Firm
27Dec By adminNo Comments
World

China Imposes Sanctions on U.S. Data Firm

Updated Dec. 26, 2023 9:28 pm ETChina’s government hit back at U.S. criticism of its human-rights record on Tuesday by imposing sanctions on a Los Angeles firm and two analysts involved in scouring the country’s supply chain for abuses.Beijing said the actions under its Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law will be applied to Kharon, a research and data analytics firm, in response to its work monitoring Xinjiang, a far western region of China where the U.S. government, Western media and independent researchers have documented human-rights abuses against ethnic minorities, including primarily Muslim Uyghurs.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Who Got a Lot Richer and Who Didn’t During the Pandemic
4Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Who Got a Lot Richer and Who Didn’t During the Pandemic

The pandemic made Americans richer across every racial, ethnic and income group—though not equally.Home values shot up, and with fewer opportunities to spend money during lockdowns, many people paid down debt and boosted savings. Between 2019 and 2021, the median household’s net worth increased 30% to $166,900, according to a report out Monday from Pew Research Center.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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To Shrink Learning Gap, This District Offers Classes Separated by Race
26Nov By adminNo Comments
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To Shrink Learning Gap, This District Offers Classes Separated by Race

Listen to article(2 minutes)EVANSTON, Ill.— School leaders in this college town just north of Chicago have been battling a sizable academic achievement gap between Black, Latino and white students for decades. So a few years ago, the school district decided to try something new at the high school: classrooms voluntarily separated by race.Nearly 200 Black and Latino students at Evanston Township High School signed up this year for math classes and a writing seminar intended for students of the same race, taught by a teacher of color. These optional so-called affinity classes are designed to address the achievement gap by making students feel more comfortable in class, district leaders have said, particularly in Advanced Placement courses that historically have enrolled few Black and Latino...
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The Democratic Panic Over Univision
23Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

The Democratic Panic Over Univision

How awful is President Biden’s polling? The Spanish-language TV network Univision is now being pounded for running an interview with Donald Trump that failed to include the type of resistance hostility that Democrats think will shore up Hispanic voters. A network executive might even get called to Capitol Hill.Univision’s hour-long interview at Mar-a-Lago, conducted by the Mexico City-based journalist Enrique Acevedo, was not particularly enlightening. Mr. Trump pledged that his second term would be fantastic, the way things were three years back: “We had no problems—literally—whatsoever.” He alleged that “many people” crossing America’s southern border are coming from insane asylums: “You ever hear of Hannibal Lecter? Not a nice person.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All R...
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Army Overturns Convictions of Black Soldiers Charged With Mutiny in 1917 Houston Riot
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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Army Overturns Convictions of Black Soldiers Charged With Mutiny in 1917 Houston Riot

The U.S. Army has overturned the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged over a century ago with mutiny, murder and assault in a Texas riot.Nineteen of the Black Army soldiers convicted were sentenced to death and executed following the riot in 1917, when members of the 24th Infantry Regiment clashed with police and white residents of heavily segregated Houston. Most of the other soldiers received life sentences.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Banks Face Shake-Up of Low-Income Lending Rules
24Oct By adminNo Comments
Money

Banks Face Shake-Up of Low-Income Lending Rules

Updated Oct. 24, 2023 9:37 am ETWASHINGTON—Top U.S. banking regulators have been struggling for more than five years to update anti-redlining rules aimed at making banks lend more in lower-income communities. On Tuesday, they plan to complete a revamp of them for the era of online banking.The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act sought to end banks’ historical practice of denying or limiting financial services in minority neighborhoods. The current rules—which are nearly 30 years old—generally require banks to serve everyone in the communities surrounding their branches, including lower-income people. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Banks Face Shake-Up of Low-Income Lending Rules
24Oct By adminNo Comments
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Banks Face Shake-Up of Low-Income Lending Rules

Updated Oct. 24, 2023 9:37 am ETWASHINGTON—Top U.S. banking regulators have been struggling for more than five years to update anti-redlining rules aimed at making banks lend more in lower-income communities. On Tuesday, they plan to complete a revamp of them for the era of online banking.The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act sought to end banks’ historical practice of denying or limiting financial services in minority neighborhoods. The current rules—which are nearly 30 years old—generally require banks to serve everyone in the communities surrounding their branches, including lower-income people. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Why Bidenomics Isn’t Popular – WSJ
22Oct By adminNo Comments
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Why Bidenomics Isn’t Popular – WSJ

Voters in swing states disapprove of Bidenomics by a two-to-one margin, according to a poll last week. And Democrats keep wondering why more black and Hispanic voters are showing interest in the GOP. A possible explanation arrived last week in a new Federal Reserve report showing how minorities in particular have struggled in the Biden years.News coverage of the Fed’s Survey of Consumer Finances has noted that the typical family’s net worth increased 37% between 2019 and 2022 amid the run-up in equity and housing prices. But while Americans overall have become wealthier during Mr. Biden’s tenure, many don’t feel that way because they are cash poorer.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Australia’s Plan to Address Colonial Legacy Divides Those It Aims to Help
11Oct By adminNo Comments
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Australia’s Plan to Address Colonial Legacy Divides Those It Aims to Help

Oct. 10, 2023 11:00 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)ALICE SPRINGS, Australia—In Australia’s vast and sparsely populated Northern Territory, the indigenous communities that make up more than a quarter of the population are divided.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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