Community Investment
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Steer Clear: How Credit Unions Help Car Buyers Avoid Predatory Loans
2008
This report provides seven lessons so that credit unions can offer more financially viable programs to help car buyers not be duped into purchasing predatory auto loans.
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Hometown Prosperity: Increasing Opportunity for DC’s Low-Income Working Families
2008
This report, from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and DC Appleseed, highlights the impact that Washington DC’s economic boom has had on residents.
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Are There Opportunities to Increase Social Security Progressivity Despite Underfunding?
2008
This paper examines Social Security’s inability to lift more elderly, low-wage workers and minorities out of poverty. It reviews the literature about Social Security outcomes by race, gender, and earnings level. Moreover, the paper uses the DYNASIM model to examine lifetime Social Security redistribution under current law and a trust fund-neutral reform package that would improve outcomes for the most vulnerable retirees.
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Access to Driving and License Suspension Policies for the Twenty-First Century Economy
2008
In recent decades, policymakers have created barriers to economic self-sufficiency and economic success by adopting legislation that makes license holding, and therefore access to legal driving, more difficult for low-wage employees who do not have access to public transportation. In this report, the authors detail promising initiatives and provide recommendations for policymakers to reduce the impact of license suspensions that are unrelated to driving competency and safety.
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From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families
2006
This report, analyzing both national data and data from 12 major metropolitan areas across the country, is about this opportunity to put the market to work for lower income families.
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