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The Workers Missing From America’s Housing Crisis

The Workers Missing From America’s Housing Crisis

by zhenjia.zhang | May 13, 2025 | Featured, Housing, immigrant

At 6 a.m. on a chilly April morning, Luis C, a 46-year-old migrant construction worker from Chile, was waiting for the path train to Journal Square in Jersey City to start work. Two years ago, he came to the U.S. with his wife and their 4-year-old daughter on a...
Five Things to Watch in April’s Case-Shiller Report

Five Things to Watch in April’s Case-Shiller Report

by zhenjia.zhang | Apr 28, 2025 | Featured, Housing

The housing prices are expected to keep rising in the U.S. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller report, which uses a repeat-sales methodology to track changes in U.S. home prices, is set to be released on Tuesday. This report offers benchmark insights into the housing...

Deportations and Immigration Restrictions Could Upend National Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Olivya Veazey | Apr 2, 2025 | Featured, Personal Income

When Malick completed his first day of work in the U.S. demolishing a house, he immediately took all the cash he had been paid and sent it to his mother, father, children, and other family members in rural Mauritania and in Senegal. Malick, 39, was part of a group of...
Obscured by talks of tariffs, other trade policy changes have companies worried

Obscured by talks of tariffs, other trade policy changes have companies worried

by Sandra Sadek | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured, Trade

Grace Welborn’s job as a lawyer is to make sure her clients comply with the complicated world of trade regulations. But in February, she learned of a major regulatory development pausing the processing of certain export license applications – not from a government...
Fairfield’s Local Affordable Housing Battle Reflects National Struggle

Fairfield’s Local Affordable Housing Battle Reflects National Struggle

by zhenjia.zhang | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured, Housing

Drive down Black Rock Turnpike in Fairfield, Connecticut, and there is a wooded area, sitting in the midst of a neighborhood that is peaceful and quiet but somehow also isolated.  The site nearly looked very different. A 96-unit, six-story building was proposed there...
Climate Change Won’t Kill the Slopes, Yet, Depending on Where You Are

Climate Change Won’t Kill the Slopes, Yet, Depending on Where You Are

by shenal.tissera | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured

When Ben Feldman began skiing in his 20s, he could count on snow-filled winters buffeting the slopes. Not anymore. When he took his family to Liberty Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania last winter, the slopes looked very different. “It’s the first time I saw where...
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