Colorlines Magazine articles

Recent articles from Colorlines Magazine

Remember affordable housing.(EDITOR'S LETTER)
May 1, 2009... SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN before bad mortgage loans take down an economy. You have to convince people that they want homeownership instead of affordable housing. And before that, you have to sell them on the notions of personal responsibility and the free market... and before that? Convince...

Bailout plan hits the poor: banks are using TARP funds to make predatory loans.
May 1, 2009... WHEN CONGRESS HASTILY created and passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) last fall to bail out the financial sector, the program didn't offer any consumer protection against the type of predatory lending practices that led to the financial crisis. It came as no surprise, then, when...

Last-minute lawmaking: the Bush administration bashed immigrants until the end.(NEWS)
May 1, 2009... IN ITS LAST DAYS IN OFFICE, the Bush administration pushed through a round of anti-immigration policies that will affect deportation hearings, FBI records and worker visas. One of those changes was made by former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who ruled that immigrants no longer...

School zones up prison rates.(NEWS)
May 1, 2009... TO STOP DRUG DEALERS from reaching children, state legislatures across the country passed laws over the years requiring mandatory prison time for people convicted of selling drugs near schools. In Massachusetts, for example, a person arrested on drug charges within 1,000 feet of a school...

HPV vaccine mandate.(NEWS)
May 1, 2009... A FEDERAL MANDATE that was passed last year requires an HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine for immigrant women between the ages of 11 and 26 seeking U.S. citizenship. The virus causes most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts, but, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...