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Pilot Training and Education Program Brings Potential to Transform Industry

December 21, 2024

By Charlene Crowell For most consumers, buying a home is the single-largest investment of their lifetimes. But for Black America, home equity – the increase in market value from the time of purchase – is often the dominant, if not sole source of wealth-building. Home equity represents 65 percent of all Black wealth, according to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Undervaluing of Property

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Record Inflation Shrinks Housing Affordability, Worsens Racial Wealth Gaps

July 9, 2022

Homeownership, historically a reliable building block to family wealth, is more of a challenge today for first-time homebuyers. As of 2022’s first quarter, the median price of an existing single- family home grew to $368,200, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 15.7 percent higher than a year ago. By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Housing Affordability

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

FY 2021 White House Budget Proposal Cuts $66.6 Billion from Education More Than $2 Billion Directed to Short-Term Career and Technical Training

February 22, 2020

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Contributor For consumers, businesses, organizations and governments alike, annual budgets typically reflect not only line items but priorities as well. As A. Philip Randolph reminded us more than 50 years ago with the release of the “Freedom Budget,” such documents reflect the morals of our nation. Especially when they show […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Education Budget Proposals

Senate Education Chair Blocks Bipartisan Bill to Extend HBCU Funding

October 5, 2019

By Charlene Crowell Deputy Communications Director for the Center for Responsible Lending Each year as families beam with pride at seeing a son, daughter or another relative graduate from college, that achievement is nearly always the result of a family’s commitment to higher education. And when these institutions are among the more than 100 Historically […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Historically Black Colleges and Universities

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Remembering Dr. King and “The Other America”

January 12, 2019

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Contributor Once again on the third Monday in January, much of the nation will mark the anniversary of the death of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Countless programs and events will no doubt recall several of his famous speeches from the 1963 March on Washington’s “I Have […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Martin Luther King Jr.

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Racial Divides Found in Student Loan Defaults

July 7, 2018

Unsustainable Debt Trajectory Needs to Be Managed By Charlene Crowell With 44 million consumers owing student debt that now reaches $1.5 trillion and still climbing, a lot of people want to better understand how and why this unsustainable debt trajectory can be better managed. For Black consumers who typically have less family wealth than other […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Student Loan Debt

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Fighting Discrimination in the Housing Market Takes a Strong FHA

May 12, 2018

By Charlene Crowell (Deputy Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) In the classic movie film, “Gone with the Wind,” the owner of the Tara plantation admonished his daughter for remarking that she didn’t care about her home. In a sharp rebuke, Gerald O-Hara declared that “land was the only thing worth living for, worth fighting […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Senate Lawmakers Seek to Gut Fair Housing

March 24, 2018

Senate Lawmakers’ Housing Reform Plan Threatens Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) In just a few weeks, civil rights and housing advocates will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. Just six days after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Congress passed the law on April […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

Black Students Hit Hard by For-Profit College Debt

January 13, 2018

New Center for Responsible Lending Report Says For-Profit Education “a Risky Proposition” By Charlene Crowell (Communications Deputy Director, Center for Responsible Lending) Mounting student debt is a nagging problem for most families these days. As the cost of higher education rises, borrowing to cover those costs often becomes a family concern across multiple generations including […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

Dream Deferred: Despite Incomes, Black Families Still Denied Access to Home Loans

October 27, 2016

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Columnist In recent weeks, a spate of news coverage has referred to America’s “inner cities.” Some may even interpret it as a new code word for minorities, usually referring to Blacks and Latinos. Yet today, according to Richard Rothstein, a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute, the inner city […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

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