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Douglas Rice is a Senior Fellow on the Center’s Housing Policy team. He is the author of many influential analyses of budget and spending issues in the Housing Choice Voucher Program and other low-income housing assistance programs. His work also explores ways to make housing programs more effective, such as by expanding families’ housing options in communities with quality schools and other opportunities. He speaks frequently before nonprofit and industry groups, and has been quoted in publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post. Before joining CBPP in 2005, Doug was Director of Housing and Community Development Policy at Catholic Charities USA, which represents one of the nation’s largest networks of social service providers. He has degrees from Harvard College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and, in a previous life, taught philosophy of science at several universities.
Biden seeks to restore ‘badly damaged’ refugee resettlement program Abigail Hauslohner President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order to rebuild the United States’ refugee resettlement program “to help meet the unprecedented global need” after four years of rollbacks under President Donald Trump. “It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged,” Biden said during a speech at the State Department. The United States admitted 11,814 refugees between Oct. 1, 2019, and Sept. 30, 2020 lower than any other year since the start of the refugee program decades ago, and barely 14 percent of the number admitted in the last year of the Obama administration. Some states last year counted their newly arrived refugees in the single digits.
Catholic Health Care Systems Make Comprehensive Commitment to Confronting Racism by Achieving Health Equity
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) today launched a membership-driven initiative to confront racism by achieving health equity.
Twenty-three of the nation s largest Catholic health care systems have already pledged their commitment to confronting systemic racism by prioritizing equity in response to COVID-19; enacting change across their own health care systems by examining and changing hiring, promotion and retention practices to ensure diversity and inclusion; forming stronger partnerships with communities of color to improve health outcomes; and leveraging their united and powerful voice to advocate for policy changes that address the root causes of racism and social injustice.
Feb 1, 2021
NEW NAME FOR FOUNDATION: Premier Bank recently announced the Home Savings Charitable Foundation is now the Premier Bank Foundation, following the company name change and 2020 merger of Home Savings Bank in Youngstown and Defiance-based First Federal Bank of the Midwest.
In the past 30 years, the foundation has provided more than $19 million to local organizations, Gary Small, president of Premier Bank, said.
Premier Bank, headquartered in Youngstown, operates 75 branches and 12 loan offices in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
BRITE ADDS TO BOARD: BRITE Energy Innovators in Warren, Ohio’s only clean tech and energy business incubator, has added five new members to its board of directors with energy and technology industry experience.