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Beth
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Mar 26, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This is ludicrous. But as I have been digging into data on banking and access to capital in the south, it shouldn’t surprise me.

It’s all about power. A thread. The south lacks access to financial products of every type: venture capital, banking, lending, and philanthropy. Let’s take them in order.
Apr 24, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
For those who are paying attention to the stimulus package just passed and are wondering, “what the heck is a Community Development Financial Institution (#CDFI)?” Short answer: they are the greatest thing that you’ve never heard of.

A thread. CDFIs were created in the 1970s as a response to discriminatory financing practices from banks (redlining, racism, etc.) As CDFI leader Mark Pinsky puts it, they were “an experimental approach to community building and anti-poverty efforts” brookings.edu/articles/takin…