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Intersectional Organizing and Policy Advocacy: Lessons from the DAPL Water Protectors
The Native CDFI Network and Prosperity Now held this webinar on Tuesday, January 24th to discuss the historic gathering of Indigenous Nations from across the US who have organized tirelessly over the past year to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline project.
Toxic Inequality: Race, Mobility, Wealth and Politics in Today’s America
Prosperity Now and New America held a conversation on Wednesday, April 19 on the racial wealth divide, public policy and the politics that continue to deepen our financial, racial and social divides.
Overwhelmed & Overdue: Addressing Troublesome Debt in Black Communities
This event has passed. Troublesome debt (e.g. high interest loans, past-due bills, criminal justice debt) can present significant barriers to...
Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze
I find here that the early 2000s witnessed both exploding debt and the middle-class squeeze. While median wealth grew briskly...
2008 Assets Learning Conference
Nearly 1,200 people from the public, private andnonprofit sectors descended on Washington, DC for three days of important and stimulating...
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
Guest blogger: Valerie Klein, Consumer Credit Services of the Delaware Valley (CCCSDV) Each month, hundreds of people call our offices at CCCSDV to make appointments for credit and debt counseling. And each month hundreds of these same people--who were motivated when they called and made the appointment--cancel or simply fail to show up: our cancellation and no show rate each month was about 60%. Continue reading Can Simplifying A Form Encourage Clients to Keep Their Debt Counseling Appointments? .
February 2010