Friday, May 18, 2012
Slate's new map of the week plots the U.S. poverty rate by county with data from 2007 to 2010. At first, it reveals a straightforward story: The Great Recession made poverty worse. Everywhere.As bad as the picture looks, though, it’s actually a rosy rendition.
Friday, May 18, 2012
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This week's topics include housing, women in poverty, access to public assistance, banking, student loan...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Last Thursday, The White House hosted the first ever Summit on Financial Capability and Empowerment. Did you hear all about it? Probably not – it somehow slipped the evening news.