Category Archives: Featured Posts

25 Nov
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Federal Lawsuit Against Popular Home Lender Rests On Shaky Ground

The US Department of Justice recently filed a lawsuit against Rocket Mortgage that they frame as a necessary strike against racial bias in the housing market—more specifically, in the area home appraisals. The National Fair Housing Alliance has confirmed the ...

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18 Oct
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Texas’ Role In The Fight To Protect Pension Funds From Proxy Advisory Firms’ Agendas

Debate about the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments on state pension funds continues across the country.  After legislative hearings at both the state and federal levels, and the implementation and repeal of various bills, it has become ...

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10 Sep
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FDA Should Answer About Failing to Promote Public Health via Tobacco Harm Reduction

The Health Subcommittee of the House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Committee will hold a hearing today that will in part focus on the Food & Drug Administration’s tobacco programs.  The list of officials expected to testify include Brian King, ...

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26 Mar
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Texas Puts Politics Over Performance Of Fund That Supports Schools

Texas has once more made national headlines for politicizing investment decisions after the Chair of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) made an investment move jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars in returns for Texas’ public schools. Last week, ...

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14 Oct
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Philanthropy Roundtable Features HLF’s Work to Advance Historically Proven Principles in Public Policy

The Philanthropy Roundtable, a nonprofit membership association of donors whose mission is “to foster excellence in philanthropy, protect philanthropic freedom and help donors advance liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility,” recently highlighted HLF’s public policy advocacy work by interviewing HLF president ...

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30 Sep
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A panel discussion on Hispanic Heritage Month, The Hill newspaper’s Changing America series

The Hill, a Washington, DC publication with in depth coverage of government, policy, and politics, invited HLF’s president to participate in a virtual panel discussion for their Changing America series.  The discussion was in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month. “Changing ...

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09 Aug
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HLF in the Media: Radio Interview, Orlando. STEP Act, Other Topics

Below is a recent radio interview from the Matt Buff Radio Show in Orlando.  Matt asks HLF president Mario H. Lopez about the role of HLF, communicating to audiences of recent immigrants and its relation to policy, and the recently ...

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02 Aug
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Senate Labor Panel Hearing Again Shows Dangers of PRO Act

Last week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. See our previous post on this, as well as an op-ed from HLF’s president. The ...

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