Assessing Quality in the Prepaid Industry with CFSI’s Compass Principles
This report describes how general purpose reloadable prepaid cards compare to financial industry standards and quality measures for financial products. Financially underserved households have increased their use of these cards in recent years.
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More than 25 percent of kids in rural areas live in poverty, which is a significantly higher rate than in the suburbs. Learn how the Foundation is working to connect rural families to opportunities.
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Clearing the Financial Barriers to Student Success Executive Summary
MDC and the Casey Foundation are working together to make sure low-income students at Community Colleges graduate.
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Nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce, veering toward chronic underemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century, according to a new KIDS COUNT report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Many of these young people, ranging from ages 16 to 24, face numerous obstacles, according to the report, Youth and Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity.
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The Working Poor Families Project Policy Brief
This report discusses performance funding policy for higher education currently being promoted at the national, state and local levels.
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Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
An analysis of data on neighborhood poverty suggests that the strong economy of the late 1990s did not permanently resolve the challenge of concentrated poverty. The slower economic growth of the 2000s, followed by the worst downturn in decades, led to increases in neighborhoods of extreme poverty once again.
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A Case for Parental Health Coverage in Mississippi
This brief tells how Mississippi’s work support system fails to support working families. Readers will learn about gaps in the state’s parental health insurance coverage and explore policy ideas aimed at addressing these gaps while also strengthening the health and economic security of low-income families.
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Making Work Pay Then and Now
This report discusses why the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is an important credit for America’s working families because it encourages work and reduces poverty.
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Helping Eligible Individuals and Families Get the Income Supports They Need
In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act increased vital resources such as food stamps, unemployment insurance and housing subsidies available to low-income families struggling through the recession. But not all families were able to gain access to and receive the benefits for which they were eligible. This report suggests that there is a need for funders, states, communities and the federal government to create more programs that low-income families can access.
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An Analysis of Impact and Remaining Need Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The federal Recovery Act only addresses some of the economic needs of tribal communities in Indian Country. This paper examines what a meaningful recovery would look like for historically marginalized Native communities. It contrasts the need and the federal investment in two general and 10 tribal-specific program investments.
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