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Years before city, state and federal tax credits came into the project, small-dollar investors played a major role in building the Dorchester Food Co-op.

Through its new Cultural Space Agency, Seattle hopes to seed a new pattern of cultural and commercial development led by the communities that development usually leaves behind or displaces.

In this Q&A, Lev Menand, author of "The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis," says the Federal Reserve is a product of a political process that for too long has been left under the control of Wall Street bankers.

This Wednesday, June 15, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in his Bottom Line Conversations webinar series. In this edition, he will talk with Michelle Holder, the outgoing president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.  The economy is on everyone's minds right now. When will inflation subside? Will strong labor markets continue to boost wages for ...

Increasing long-term investment in CDFIs could help reverse the decades-long decline of financial institutions in hard-to-reach urban, rural or low- or moderate-income communities. 

A little-known legal provision lets banks correct for historic discrimination. This bank has been doing so for three decades.

Join Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in his Bottom Line Conversations webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.

Women and people of color still have more difficulty accessing small business loans than white men. Lendistry is hoping to change that.

/PRNewswire/ -- TaroWorks, the offline mobile field service app, is awarding a $20,000 grant to subsidize the digitization of a nonprofits last mile...

The Enterprise Center in Philly pioneers a new idea to fill in the equity gap by getting private investment fund managers to invest in more women- and minority-led businesses.