More Medicaid Malarkey (Progress Illinois)

Taxpayer Action Board Pushes For Investment In Home Care — Not Cuts (Progress Illinois)

State Moves To Track Ownership Of Blighted Properties (Hartford Business Journal)

Present Votes Defeat Predatory Lending Reform (Progress Illinois)

Evanston’s foreclosure rate rises (Daily Northwestern)

Disclosure needed for basic banking, says new report Regulators should tap existing bank data to measure how banks serve low-wealth consumers

Consumer protections defeated in House Executive Committee – lenders stall efforts to stop usury in Illinois

Foreclosures rising fastest in northern suburbs (Pioneer Press)

Stimulus money sparks some hope in Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods (Medill News Services)

After stress tests, need for transparency, accountability and oversight of financial products

Viewpoint: To Avert Crisis: Transparency, Accountability (American Banker)

Senate passes credit card reform, Obama hopes to sign by end of May

Hundreds rally at Bank of America to stop home foreclosures (People’s Weekly World)

1Q foreclosure data shows shift to suburbs, Chicago’s communities of color still reeling

Woodstock’s Dory Rand calls for credit card reforms on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

Chicago Tonight: The Bottom Line with Eddie Arruza (WTTW-TV)

Community stakeholders ask the next big question: when will lending and investment in low-wealth communities pick up?

First Quarter 2009 Foreclosure Filings

Wall Street Journal op-ed misses the mark on CRA

Giannoulias announces ‘anti-bailout’ (Dispatch/Argus)