Blog Post

Marisa Calderon, President and CEO of Prosperity Now, delivered remarks at the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act (EGRPRA) meeting on March 26, 2026. In her remarks, she draws on nearly five decades of Prosperity Now’s work with financial institutions and community partners to highlight how fragmentation across data, reporting, and processes creates unnecessary burden and limits the effective flow of capital. Below are her full remarks.

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