Foreclosure protection law set to expire July 1, a bill would keep it in place
Nearly 10,000 homes went into foreclosure during the mortgage crisis in Rhode Island. Then, in 2013, the General Assembly passed the Foreclosure Reduction Act, which mandated banks to work with homeowners before repossessing property. Since then, the law helped some 600 Rhode Islanders avoid losing their homes. But the Foreclosure Reduction Act is set to […]
Magaziner uses ‘shareholder revolution’ to effect progressive change
General Treasurer Seth Magaziner began pushing some of the corporations the state invests with to be more socially responsible in April. Since then the $8 billion pension fund used its proxy voting power to withhold affirmative votes for either excessive executive compensation or lack of racial or gender diversity on boards of directors from 257 […]
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