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Highlights for August 2008
 Shining a Light on Poverty -- And Efforts to Combat It
The new summer 2008 issue of the Annie E. Casey Foundation newsletter, Casey Connects/Insites, describes how the Foundation has stepped up efforts to support promising efforts nationwide to combat poverty, while also building the popular and political will needed to spur action by federal, state, and local policymakers. Insites features stories of people reaping the benefits of successful approaches to combat poverty.
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 New Data Available on Race and Ethnicity
New comprehensive state-level data on kids and families in the five largest racial and ethnic groups – African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaskan Native, and Non-Hispanic White –show that across the United States, children of color continue to face disproportionately more obstacles than other children. Create your own graphs, maps, and charts in the KIDS COUNT Data Center.
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 Report Explores Predatory Lending in Native American Communities
Developed by First Nations Development Institute through the support of the Casey Foundation, Borrowing Trouble details the practices of lenders targeting Native American communities with loan products that are often designed to exploit vulnerable borrowers who generally cannot afford to repay the loans.
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Casey Foundation Urges Congress to Adopt a New Poverty Measure
A U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee held a hearing on July 17th on a draft proposal to establish a new measure of poverty in the United States. Annie E. Casey Foundation President and CEO Douglas W. Nelson presented testimony on the reasons that today’s poverty measure does not reflect the needs of low-income families. Learn more and watch the video on SpotlightonPoverty.org.
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