
Oscar Abello
Senior Economic Justice Correspondent at Next City
Senior Economic Justice Correspondent for @NextCityOrg. Author of The Banks We Deserve @islandpress [email protected] he/him #FilAm
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2 months ago |
nextcity.org | Oscar Abello |Melissa Simpson
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Mar 18, 2025 |
nextcity.org | Oscar Abello
Community development financial institutions around the country have been roiled by the Trump administration’s March 14 executive order targeting the CDFI Fund for elimination “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”The White House issued the executive order only hours after President Trump had signed a budget bill that maintained funding for the CDFI Fund at its 2024 level of $324 million.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
nextcity.org | Oscar Abello
When the pandemic hit, Mayra Ibarra moved back into her mother’s house to get some help with rent and childcare. There, she had to share a bedroom with her youngest son. Ibarra’s mother didn’t have internet access, but they quickly installed it so her son could attend kindergarten remotely. She bought him an old classroom chair, the kind with the desk attached to it, to keep in their bedroom.
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Feb 18, 2025 |
popularresistance.org | Oscar Abello
Above photo: The Waxery was the Kensington Corridor Trust’s first commercial tenant. Melissa Simpson. Eight new acquisitions were made last year. The Kensington Corridor Trust is growing its roots and capacity. The first time Yolanda Del Valle came to work at Sherry’s Restaurant, she was a teen covering a friend’s shift at the popular local diner, located for 50-plus years at the corner of Kensington and Ontario Avenues in Philadelphia.
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Feb 18, 2025 |
nextcity.org | Oscar Abello |Melissa Simpson
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