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David Robinson: Buffalo Niagara worker shortage slows the Covid-19 recovery

By David Robinson

Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.

That’s worrisome because it’s a sign that the low-hanging fruit in the recovery has been pretty much picked. And we’re still down about 30,000 jobs from where we were in June 2019, so the recovery is far from over.

Now that the economy is operating without many Covid-19-related restrictions, it is the more difficult structural issues that are holding back the recovery.

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Trudeau’s Border Plan Seeks to Allow U.S. Travel by Mid-August

By Kait Bolongaro and Niluksi Koswanage

Read the full article from Bloomberg, here.

The country will be able to welcome fully-vaccinated travelers from the U.S. as early as mid-August, and from all other countries by September, if “the current positive path of vaccination rate and public health conditions continue,” the prime minister’s office said Thursday night in a summary of his meeting with provincial leaders.

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Brown commits to mayoral debate co-sponsored by The Buffalo News

By Harold McNeil

Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.

Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown has committed to participating in a debate against his opponent in the mayoral race, Democratic Party nominee India B. Walton, in an event being sponsored by The Buffalo News, WGRZ and Buffalo Toronto Public Media.

Walton, who defeated Brown in the Democratic primary, was out of town, and her campaign has not yet committed to participating in the 7 p.m. Oct. 12 debate.

Citizen panel questions Buffalo police chief on white supremacy in policing

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Citizen panel questions Buffalo police chief on white supremacy in policing

By Deidre Williams

Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.

Noting a series of alarming incidents around the country, members of a citizens police oversight panel that reports to the Buffalo Common Council on Wednesday questioned Police Commissioner Byron C. Lockwood on the steps being taken to prevent a white supremacist from infiltrating the department’s ranks.

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In the Twin Cities, Affordable Homeownership Is Increasingly Inaccessible for Black Families

By Yonah Freemark, Eleanor Noble, Yipeng Su, and Kimberly Burrowes

Read the full article from Housing Matters, here.

But deep structural racism and classism have made access to homeownership inequitably distributed along racial and class lines. Nowhere in the US is this inequity greater than in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a region encompassing Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and their suburbs, where Black families own homes at less than one-third the rate of white families—the largest gap in the nation.

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Council sets meeting for public to weigh in on federal stimulus spending

By Deidre Williams

Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.

Buffalo is slated to receive $331 million in federal stimulus funding. Half of the windfall arrived last month. The second payment is expected to come next year. All of the funds must be spent within the next four years. The Common Council will hold a public meeting for the community to weigh in on the spending.

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Professionals from city’s wealthier areas powered India Walton to victory

By Jerry Zremski

Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.

Walton grew up poor in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, but she beat Buffalo’s four-term mayor, Byron W. Brown, with votes – and a lot of campaign help – from professionals in the city’s wealthier enclaves. And now Walton and her supporters are working to defeat Brown’s write-in bid in November and create a progressive city administration led by a self-proclaimed democratic socialist.

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