Financial Literacy
Some schools teach financial literacy, but courses still in short supply, By Karyn Saemann, June 3, 2010, Capital Times: “It’s ‘payday’ in Jill Strand’s classroom at Glacier Edge Elementary School in...
View ArticleLow-Income Workers and Savings
Special savings accounts can help break cycle of poverty, By Kathy M. Kristof, July 4, 2010, Los Angeles Times: “Dametria Williams started her financial life as a statistic – a poor single mom, just...
View ArticleNPR Series on Youth and Financial Literacy
Money counts: Young adults and financial literacy, series homepage, May 20, 2011, National Public Radio.
View ArticleLow-income Car Ownership
Affordable cars are key to getting off public aid, study finds, By Ken Bensinger, March 14, 2012, Los Angeles Times: “Access to affordable cars proved a crucial leg-up for working families, even during...
View ArticleWays to Work Program
Ways to Work loan program a life changer for low income, By John Wisely, April 8, 2012, USA Today: “For Benita Jackson, an 8-year-old blue Saturn Vue was a life changer. The 41-year-old single mother...
View ArticlePayday Lending
Regions, Courting the Underbanked, Defends Payday Loans, By Maria Aspan, June 18, 2012, American Banker: “For banks trying to serve more low-income customers, Regions Financial (RF) could become both a...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Program – Massachusetts
Program teaches working poor ways to save, build credit, By Laura Finaldi, November 29, 2012, Boston Globe: “Meg Alcantara, a single mother of three, was working two jobs, but never getting ahead. She...
View ArticlePayday Lending
Major banks aid in payday loans banned by states, By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, February 23, 2013, New York Times: “Major banks have quickly become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday...
View ArticlePayday Lending
Payday loans cost economy $1 billion in 2011: study, By Mark Koba, May 2, 2013, CNBC: “Payday loans cost the U.S. economy nearly $1 billion and thousands of jobs in 2011, according to a report from the...
View ArticleIndividual Development Accounts
Can the poor save?, By Mercedes White, July 16 2013, Deseret News: “When Regina Berrios, a 34-year-old single mother of two girls and a boy, talks about her dreams for her family, her eyes sparkle and...
View ArticleOperation HOPE
Can the poor pull themselves out of poverty? By Diane Brady, June 25, 2014, Bloomberg Businessweek: “Amid all the debate over poverty’s causes and cures right now, little focus has been on what the...
View ArticleFinancial Opportunity Centers
Boston centers help low-income residents with budgeting, By Katie Johnson, March 20, 2015, Boston Globe: “Making money isn’t the problem for Adalziza Campbell. Managing it is. Campbell works two jobs,...
View ArticleIntergenerational Poverty
Can poverty be passed down? A nonprofit tries to break the cycle, By Katie Johnson, July 12, 2016, Boston Globe: “In some households, poverty is passed down from generation to generation, almost like...
View ArticleAging Out of Foster Care – Indiana
From foster care to first-time homeowners, By Maureen C. Gilmer, July 20, 2016, Indianapolis Star: “As a child, Ronnisha Davis bounced from home to home. She lived with her mom, then in a foster home,...
View ArticleIntergenerational Poverty
How poverty changes the brain, By Tara García Mathewson, April 19, 2017, The Atlantic: “You saw the pictures in science class—a profile view of the human brain, sectioned by function. The piece at the...
View ArticleFinancial Stress Among Native Americans
Study shows high levels of financial distress among Native Americans, By David Erickson, May 2, 2017, Missoulian: “The use of high-cost borrowing methods such as payday loans and a lack of retirement...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy
It’s hard to manage your credit when you’ve never heard of ‘interest’, By Marsha Mercer, August 7, 2018, Stateline: “When Kentucky state Treasurer Allison Ball and a colleague talked with high school...
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