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Reinvestment coalition says evidence points to uneven access to business-supporting banking services for minorities An employee sanitizes a credit card machine. Some new research by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) seems to validate some of what many lending advocates have feared amid coronavirus-related recovery efforts: inequity in access to helpful banking services. The latest report, released Tuesday, Feb. 2, builds on prior NCRC research documenting lending discrimination within the Paycheck Protection Program — and as we covered last summer, there were some documen...

Patricia Warren, Brunswick Heads Jason Van Tol needs to focus on the issue (Letters, 20 January). What social compass carries with it an entitlement to inflict the noise impact of a drumming circle on such an extensive area in Brunswick Heads for hours upon end? Why now, and not before, do we have signage stating that ‘events’ must be licensed by Reflections? It’s a response to the volume of complaints! Why did the drummers ignore the requirements when holding an ‘event’ on 3 January in full knowledge that it would induce a crowd? What COVID restrictions did this event or previous e...

Appointee Jenn Jones spent the last four years as the chief of policy and membership at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization fighting housing and lending discrimination.

The vast majority of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans in the Worcester metropolitan area went to upper and middle income white neighborhoods, according to geocoded data released by Washington nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which focuses its work on fighting discrimination in lending, housing and business. The organization compiled local and national data by geocoding the addresses listed on PPP applications, after the U.S. Small Business Administration released detailed data about the $523-billion loan program, which was designed to help small businesses survive...