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Non-profit group Consumer Action conducted a nationwide survey spanning 5,000 community-based organizations (CBOs) and discovered that seven out of 10 CBOs reported “serious” problems with housing discrimination against immigrants, families with children and the disabled. They further reported that discrimination is increasing and that those being discriminated against do not know it and do not know their rights. Experts say only cases that are reported can be investigated, and that many couldn’t afford the time to pursue the issue even if they knew about it, considering that a resolution can often take weeks or months.
Here’s a breakdown of the Community Action survey’s findings:
— The June Euro 2012 football championship was Ukraine’s chance to shine: forge closer ties with the West, boost its international standing and aid its struggling economy.
Instead, it’s turned into a major headache.
In a move reminiscent of the Cold War, top EU officials have vowed to boycott matches held in Ukraine over the alleged mistreatment of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Critics warn that fans may be put off by exorbitant Ukrainian hotel prices and that the cash-strapped government has endangered the country by spending as much as $14 billion on the championship.
“This was a chance to show off the country because a thousand journalists will come here” said Oleh Rybachuk, a member of Tymoshenko’s first Cabinet who has turned into a civic activist. “Now those thousand journalists will come and write about a million problems.”
“The image, political and economic benefits — I don’t see any,” Rybachuk said.
Ukraine was awarded the Euro 2012 championship along with neighboring Poland in 2007 in a decision meant to reward and promote the two football-loving ex-Communist Eastern European countries, with Poland already a proud member of the EU and Ukraine aspiring to join. Bac
— Japan’s quarterly central bank survey shows no improvement in business confidence from the previous quarter. The worse-than-expected result reflects a deteriorating outlook among medium and smaller manufacturers despite easing worries over the crisis in Europe.
The Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan,” released Monday, showed the main index for big manufacturers was at minus 4 for the January-March quarter, unchanged from the last quarter of 2011. Many analysts had forecast an improvement to minus 1.
A negative reading indicates greater pessimism than optimism among those surveyed.
Data released last week showed weaker than expected factory production in February, underscoring the fragility of the economic recovery as growth in Asia slows.
The push to revitalize downtown urban areas in many U.S. cities is slowly strengthening now that signs of an economic recovery are showing, but individual city advocates say it’s still hard to attract investor and consumer dollars. Experts say one key is to reinvent a city’s identity to help it stand out from the crowd of other locations hungry for development, or redevelopment. For example, Philadelphia and Newark are saddled with reputations of being dirty and dangerous despite great improvement in both areas over the years, and city leaders must work to dispel these stereotypes before they can hope to attract new business and consumer interest.
The push toward downtown revitalization that began in the 1990s has survived the Great Recession.
But in this gradually improving economy, attracting development isn’t easy. It means carrying “a Swiss Army knife” of creative tools, says West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority Director Raphael Clemente. For 10 ye
— Some workers in Sweden have found a rather offbeat way to spend their lunch hour. Actually, on-beat is more like it.
Dripping with sweat and awash in disco lights, they dance away to pulsating club music at Lunch Beat, a trend that started in Stockholm and is spreading to other cites in Europe.
Then they go back to work.
“It is absolutely fantastic!” exclaimed Asa Andersson, 33, who broke away from her job at a coffee shop to bust some moves last week. “It is the first time I’m here, I’m totally happy and ecstatic, totally covered in sweat and I’m full of energy. It does not get any better than this.”
The first Lunch Beat was held in June 2010 in an underground parking lot in Stockholm. Only 14 people showed up. But they had so much fun they immediately planned another event. Word spread, and now the Swedish capital has monthly Lunch Beats that attract hundreds.
Similar events have been held in at least 10 other Swedish cities and in Finland and Serbia. P