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Demographics of Wealth: How Age, Education and Race Separate Thrivers from Strugglers in Today’s Economy
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
YEAR: 2015
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Drawing from the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, which includes data from over 40,000 families (spanning 1989 to 2013), th
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Weathering the Great Recession: A CDFI Case Study in Patient Capital
AUTHOR: Kimberly Latimer-Nelligan, Low Income Investment Fund…
YEAR: 2015
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Learn about how CDFIs have fared The Great Recession successfully, with a focus on the low income investment fund, a CDFI that practices a proactiv
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The High Public Cost of Low Wages
AUTHOR: UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report examines the link between low wages, reduced employer provision of health insurance and the use of public benefit programs.
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Consumers and Mobile Financial Services 2015
AUTHOR: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report covers consumer behavior of using mobile banking across the United States
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Increasing Local Food Procurement by Massachusetts State Agencies
AUTHOR: Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report contains policy recommendations to make it easier for state agencies to source food from local producers
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Scrimping + Saving: A report on financial access, attitudes and behaviors of low- and moderate-income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
AUTHOR: National CAPACD
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at financial capability and access of low-income Asian American communities in the United States
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#BlackWorkersMatter
AUTHOR: Discount Foundation and Neighborhood Funders Group…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
This six section report covers the history of black worker organizing, the black jobs crisis and recommendations to improve the economic prosperity
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Exploring the Economic and Health Impacts of Local Food Procurement
AUTHOR: Crossroads Resource Center and Illinois Public Health…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report compiles research and case studies to examine the economic and health impacts of the local food sourcing movement on communities.
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Building Sustainable Communities: Integrated Services and Improved Financial Outcomes for Low-Income Households
AUTHOR: Local Initiatives Support Corporation
YEAR: 2015
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In this report LISC examines the impact of its financial opportunity centers, which include bundled services that focused on employment, income sup
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Low-Income Working Families: Racial/Ethnic Divide
AUTHOR: The Working Poor Families Project
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at the growing economic divide between America's major racial groups, showing that famillies headed by racial and ethnic minorities ar
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Secure Jobs for Homeless Families
AUTHOR: Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis…
YEAR: 2015
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Policy brief covers changes and challenges to the
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The Route to Growth: Capacity Investments Critical for Region's Future
AUTHOR: Transportation for Massachusetts
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Brief notes the importance of capacity building in the MBTA to ensure the long term economic growth of the region
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Financial Empowerment in a Thriving Community Development Network
AUTHOR: NACEDA
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report showcases how community development associations throughout the country engage in financial empowerment
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The Color of Wealth in Boston
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at wealth among Boston's racial and ethnic communities to show how wealth inequality disproportionately affects Boston's different sub
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CDFIs Stepping Into the Breach: An Impact Evaluation- Summary Report
AUTHOR: Michael Swack, Eric Hangen and Jack Northup,…
YEAR: 2015
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Report examines the outcomes of CDFIs across the country and finds that they move capital to distressed communities much more than other lenders an
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The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters
AUTHOR: ISP, Brandeis University and Demos
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report provides a systemic analysis of the public policies that offer the most potential for reducing the racial wealth gap
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Scaling up the Cooperative Movement
AUTHOR: Grassroots Economic Organizing with The Democracy…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Electronic book addresses how the cooperative movement can be scaled up without losing its core values
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Excluded from the Financial Mainstream: How the Economic Recovery is Bypassing Millions of Americans
AUTHOR: Corporation for Enterprise Development
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report explains why the economic recovery has not benefitted many Americans and how policies can improve families' access to financial assets, jobs
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State of the Dream 2015: Underbanked and Overcharged
AUTHOR: United for a Fair Economy
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
This report by United for a Fair Economy sheds light on the racial aspects of the 93 million unbanked and underbanked in a way that will help chang
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Housing Programs Fail to Deliver on Neighborhood Programs, Reexamined
AUTHOR: Kirk McClure and Bonnie Johnson, University of Kansas…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Paper examines whether policy programs today do a better job of improving neighborhood quality than in 1997 when study was first done.
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Small Business Lending in Massachusetts 2007-2013
AUTHOR: Stuart Ryan, Massachusetts Community and Banking…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
In its sixteenth annual report, MCBC provides information on small business lending in Massachusetts with an emphasis on low-income and traditional
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Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty-not gentrification-is our biggest urban challenge
AUTHOR: Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi, City Observatory…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This paper examines population change in America's poorest neighborhoods over the past four decades.
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The Divided City and the Shape of the Metropolis
AUTHOR: Martin Prosperity Institute
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Analysis by urban theorist Richard Florida finds that residents in cities across t
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Massachusetts Transportation by the Numbers: Meeting the State's Need for Safe and Efficient Mobility
AUTHOR: TRIP
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights how inadequate transportation system in Massachusetts results in billions of dollars of costs to vehicles and in increased traffi
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