The CEO of a California health club is trying to keep employees on the payroll, even while the club is shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic. Mike Alpert has asked members to continue paying dues during the crisis, with the promise of repaying them when the club reopens. Jamie Yuccas reports.Continue Reading
Hundreds of workers at food processing plants in states including South Dakota, Iowa, Colorado, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been infected with coronavirus. Several plants have been forced to shut down, putting the nation’s food supply at risk. Dean Reynolds reports.Continue Reading
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a message read by his secretary of state to a women’s advocacy group meeting ahead of the G-20 summit, Pope Francis called for greater female leadership in world affairs on Monday (Oct. 18), telling the Women’s Forum G-20 that “our world needs the collaboration of women, their leadership and their…Continue Reading
(RNS) — For months, the American people have been calling for national standards to protect our freedom to vote safely and freely and to make sure every vote is counted, regardless of the state we live in. More than 400 voter suppression bills in 49 states have been introduced to deliberately deny our freedom to…Continue Reading
ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife,” in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but welcoming it. Benedict penned an Oct. 2 letter to a German priest, thanking him for letting him know of…Continue Reading
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Since Rohit Chopra was confirmed as the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in September, there’s been one particular word on the lips of mortgage executives. And it gives them chills: redlining. “We are going to see a lot of emphasis on redlining: when you’re actively, intentionally separating out areas that you…Continue Reading
Less than one month after launching operations, the private holding group StoicLane – the backers of Interfirst Mortgage – has acquired control of the appraisal management company Lender’s Valuation Services (LVS). The companies did not disclose the amount of the deal announced on Wednesday. Al Goldstein, a co-founder of StoicLane, said the holding group wants to support LVS’s…Continue Reading
Mortgage application activity dropped 6.3% for the week ending Oct. 15, according to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association survey. And, as you might have guessed, mortgage rates had a lot to do with it. “Refinance applications declined for the fourth week as rates increased, bringing the refinance index to its lowest level since July 2021,”…Continue Reading
The popularity of socially responsible investing in areas such as affordable housing has run headlong into the nation’s culture wars in Texas. Four leading municipal bond underwriters recently chose to pull out of the Lone Star State’s municipal bond market — among the biggest in the nation — on the heels of two laws that…Continue Reading