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The rise of buy now, pay later products, which often aren’t reported to credit bureaus, could affect borrowers’ ability to buy a home and sustain homeownership.
Reducing the Amount of Federal Unemployment Insurance Would Increase Rent Burden for Millions of Households As federal, state, and local eviction moratoria expire, extending unemployment insurance would reduce the risk of eviction for families whose employment has not returned.Major League Baseball Is Back. For Minor Leaguers Still at Home, It’s a Reminder of the Pandemic’s Disproportionate Economic Consequences. Many players may have to leave the game they love to search for livable wages in an economy still experiencing record unemployment.New Civil Rights Principles Mark First Step to Make AI Hiring More Equitable As employers adopt AI hiring technology during the pandemic and beyond, they have a critical responsibility to ensure the systems they use don’t deepen inequalities.Without Robust Requirements That Sellers Disclose a Home’s Flooding History, Buyers Are More At Risk No federal law requires natural hazard risk disclosures, despite 74 percent of Americans supporting such a requirement.The Leisure and Hospitality Sector Has an Employment Crisis—and It Might Be Getting Worse Examining the ups and downs helps us understand not only how bad the economic effects of the pandemic have been over the past five months, but how much worse they may get.Three Lessons from the Swiss Apprenticeship Model to Inform Our Post-COVID-19 Recovery Investments made in youth apprenticeship now could yield returns for decades to come.
