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Charlene Crowell 

Fast-growing app usage leaves many consumers worse off.

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Columnist Ben Jealous 

With the holiday season approaching, it seems that our country could not be more divided. That division has been perhaps the main overarching topic of our national conversation in recent years. And it has taken root within many of our own families.

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Rob Okun, editor emeritus of Voice Male magazine 

White male supremacy, which Trump ran on, continues to play an outsized role in exacerbating the divide that afflicts our nation.

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Anthony Kinslow II, PhD 

President Biden’s Justice40 initiative ensures that 40% of federal investment benefits flow to disadvantaged communities, addressing deep-seated inequities.

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Charlene Crowell 

As Americans live longer, the ability to remain financially independent is an ongoing struggle. Especially for Black and other people of color whose lifetime incomes are often lower than that of other contemporaries, finding money to save for ‘old age’ is particularly daunting.

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Nkenge Harmon Johnson, President and CEO, Urban League of Portland 

Political forces around the country have launched an all-out assault on voting rights that targets Black communities. State legislatures are restricting voting access in districts with large Black populations and are imposing other barriers and pernicious restrictions.

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Photo Credit by Jacob Wackerhausen 

My Head Start classroom was a warm environment that affirmed me as a learner. That affirmation has influenced my journey from Head Start to public media president.

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Ronnie Herndon, Albina Head Start 

This month, Albina Head Start filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to defend itself against a misapplied rule that could force the program – and all the children it serves – to lose federal funding.

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Columnist Charlene Crowell 

In August, the Department of Justice and eight state Attorneys Generals filed a lawsuit charging RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software firm with providing apartment managers with illegal price fixing software data that violates antitrust law and artificially increases costs for millions of renters across the nation.   

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Michael Grant, J.D. 

Because a 'House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand'

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