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On the recordMay 14, 2018
40 years later, African American families and Latino families are still disproportionately discriminated against, and so something is wrong.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Menendez highlights ongoing discrimination in mortgage lending after 40 years of the Community Reinvestment Act.

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