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Can Student Loan Debt Explain Low Homeownership Rates for Young Adults?
This first article explores the impact that rising student loan debt levels may have on homeownership rates among young adults.
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CDFIs Response to COVID-19
This second article describes the operations of community development financial institutions and their roles responding to the pandemic.
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The Pandemic's Early Effects on Consumers and Communities
This issue of Consumer & Community Context contains four articles presenting analysis of how consumers, communities, and community development organizations are responding to the pandemic.
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Household Finances under COVID-19: Evidence from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
This first article looks at select results from the most recent Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), originally fielded in October 2019, and from supplemental SHED surveys fielded in April and July 2020 to measure the economic impact of the pandemic.
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Analyzing Consumer Complaints for Emerging Risks During the Pandemic
This third article presents the results of an analysis of complaints consumers reported to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about their experiences with financial institutions.
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Single Mothers Have Little Wealth to Withstand Outsized COVID-19 Impact
The second shows that single mothers had slim financial cushions going into the COVID-19 recession and had higher unemployment rates during the recession than single fathers and women without children.
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Childcare Disruptions and Mothers’ Availability to Work during the Pandemic: Evidence from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
The first article finds that the pandemic disrupted childcare or in-person schooling for nearly 70 percent of parents, with 25 percent of mothers reporting that they did not work or worked less as a result.
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Growing Pains: Examining Small Business Access to Affordable Credit in Low-Income Areas
This third article examines small businesses’ access to financial services in low- and moderate-income communities.
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Delivering Benefits of Faster Payments to the Underserved
This first article examines the implications of faster payments for cash-flow-constrained consumers.
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Mind the Gap: Minority-Owned Small Businesses' Financing Experiences in 2018
This second article explores disparities in small business credit approval by race and ethnicity.