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National Conference of Black Mayors

Cities Rethink High-Tech Alert Systems (USA TODAY/July 7, 2009) Cities ...
NCBM Calls on FCC To Ponder Network Neutrality Rules Groups Ask For Workshop On ...
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform How an Industry Lobby Scored ...
Criminal and Social Justice Committee The Criminal and Social Justice ...
Labor Official Notes Positive Signs in Latest Job Loss Numbers (CongressNow/June 5, 2009) The release ...
NCBM Policy Brief: The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 On May 21, 2009, the ...
Sacramento’s Transit-Oriented Development Plan a Model for the Nation By Christopher Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, ...
Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee The Arts, Culture and Recreation ...
NCBM Scholarship Award The National Conference of Black ...
Warehouses Provided to NCBM to House Donations for Haitian Relief Effort The City of Homestead and ...
Black Barbershop Health Outreach Black Barbershop Health Outreach In a ...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Calls For An Extension In Unemployment Benefits Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Chairwoman ...
Federal Grant Pre-Application Process All agencies applying for a ...
Congressional TriCaucus Declares ‘Health Coverage Is Not Enough’   Members of the Congressional TriCaucus ...
Warehouses Provided to NCBM to House Donations for Haitian Relief Effort The City of Homestead and ...
Expansion of tax-credit programs to create jobs in Missouri goes into effect (Kansas City Star/June 4, 2009) ...
Study Tries To Track Louisiana Teachers’ Success (NPR/January 4, 2010) How do ...
Oklahoma Conference of Black Mayors   Mayor Marilyn MurrellChapter President Arcadia, ...
National Conference of Black Mayors and Census Bureau Co-Convene Briefing on 2010 Census and the African Diaspora On April 9, 2009, the ...

Archived Resource Documents

FHA To Begin Insuring Hospital Refinance Loans

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced July 13th that HUD’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will now provide mortgage loan insurance for hospital refinancing. Prior to this, hospitals could only get FHA insurance on loans that included a substantial... Read More →

Department of Labor Report: The Employment Situation May 2009

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the May 2009 Employment Situation report released June 5, 2009: “This past May, our economy lost 345,000 jobs, bringing the total number of jobs lost since this recession began to 6 million. The overall unemployment rate... Read More →

USDOT Report: Higher Seat Belt Use Could Save Many Lives

Research Kicks Off “Click It or Ticket” Nationwide Enforcement Campaign Set To Run May 18-31 A U.S. Department of Transportation study recently released estimates that 1,652 lives could be saved and 22,372 serious injuries avoided each year on America’s roadways if seat belt use rates... Read More →

Associated Press Analysis: Empty Neighborhoods Fill Rust Belt

(USA TODAY/May 4, 2009)                   Meet the forgotten housing crisis.  While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation’s emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated... Read More →

US Dept of Education Report: Basic Reading Skills and Adult Literacy

Why Do Millions of Americans Struggle With Reading and Writing? (Christian Science Monitor/May 7, 2009) For the first time, a detailed portrait of America’s least literate adults is emerging. About 30 million people - 14 percent of the US population 16 and older - have trouble with basic reading... Read More →

Administration Details $17 Billion in Budget Cuts

(CongressNow/May 7, 2009) The White House released this morning a detailed fiscal 2010 budget plan that proposes cutting or eliminating a broad range of federal programs, saving an estimated $17 billion in the $3.5 trillion budget request. Of the $17 billion in savings from 121 programs, about $11.5... Read More →

African American Federal Budget Highlights Fact Sheet

The Democratic Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives has developed a fact sheet that highlights primary elements of the federal budget that benefits the African American community.  Download African American Budget Highlights Fact Sheet  Read More →

Congressional Research Service Student Loan Report

The Congressional Research Service has released a new report detailing federally backed student loan programs. The administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal and the Congressional budget resolution (S. Con. Res. 13) call for the Education Department to administer many more federal student loans... Read More →

Special Report: NCBM Broadband Agenda

The digital disparity that currently impacts our communities is two-fold: (1) many low-income families do not have access to affordable Internet via a high-speed broadband connection at home, and (2) we lack culturally relevant content & quality programs. Minority buying power, prior to the economic... Read More →

The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Employment

Job Sprawl Revisited by Elizabeth Kneebone, Senior Research Analyst, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute  (April 6, 2009)–An analysis of the spatial location of private-sector jobs in 98 of the largest metropolitan areas by employment reveals that: Only 21 percent of employees in... Read More →

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