credit

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/27/2022
  

  The Freedman's Bank Forum Obscures the Institution's Real History

  by Justene Hill Edwards

  Vice President Kamala Harris's recent remarks at the forum enlisted the Freedman's Bank to celebrate public-private partnerships between banks and minority communities. The real history of the Freedman's Bank shows why public-private partnerships and moral uplift are inadequate to promote financial equity. 

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• SOURCE: CNBC
  6/26/2022
  

  Where Did Credit Reporting Come From, and Why is it So Powerful Today?

  Josh Lauer has researched a book on the history of credit reporting, which shows that for much of the history of personal credit decisions were subjective and decentralized. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/23/2020
  

  What We Can Learn From Feminist Federal Credit Unions

  Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, women- and minority-owned businesses are still contending with unequal access to credit.