Yearly Archives: 2018

Can ‘Land Banks’ Help Rebuild Post-industrial US Cities?

When Jamil Bey wanted to move back to the Pittsburgh neighborhood where he had grown up, he found the perfect house to buy. There was just one problem — a fall in property values on that street had left the owners trapped in negative equity. Unable to agree on a price that would allow the sellers to pay off their …

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Intel Tops List of Tech Companies Fighting Forced Labor

Intel topped a list issued on Monday ranking how well technology companies combat the risk of forced labor in their supply chains, overtaking HP and Apple. Most of the top 40 global technology companies assessed in the study by KnowTheChain, an online resource for business, had made progress since the last report was published in 2016. But the study found …

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Amazon investors join ACLU urging halt to facial recognition tool used by police

The American Civil Liberties Union is leading the effort against Amazon’s Rekognition product, delivering a petition with 152,000 signatures to the company’s Seattle headquarters Monday. A group of 19 investment managing companies also expressed concerns about the tool.          

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Senators call family separation inhumane

Lawmakers from both parties are calling family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border inhumane, though they are also accusing each other of politicizing the issue. (June 18)          

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