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Journal Article
Community Action in Southern New Mexico
The national Community Action program began in the 1960s to serve as a focal point in local communities for the war on poverty. Programs were established in a majority of counties across the U.S., including some in rural areas. Many programs continue to thrive today, and in mostly rural southern New Mexico, a highly productive Community Action Agency is paving the way to financial stability and success for thousands of low-income working families.
Journal Article
Federal Reserve personal financial education initiatives
Recognizing the importance of successful personal financial management to individuals and the broader economy, the Federal Reserve System has in the past two years intensified its efforts to provide and promote personal financial education. Initiatives have ranged from a public outreach effort highlighting the importance of financial education, to local and regional Reserve Bank programs targeted to specific audiences, to new educational seminars for employees. Staff members have studied the effectiveness of different types of education programs for different groups, and the System has worked ...
Journal Article
Spotlight: Financial services: Banking within reach of more Mexicans
In 2008-09, Mexico was wracked by the global financial crisis, suffering its largest one-year economic contraction since at least the 1930s. But the banking sector withstood the shock and made important strides in one area--bringing previously unbanked households into the financial system. Boosting Mexico's economic development by helping small businesses fulfill their potential depends on improving access to finance and fully linking these engines of economic growth and opportunity to the formal economy.
Speech
Enhancing payment system speed, efficiency and security
Keynote remarks at the TCH Annual Payments Symposium and Business Meeting, New York City.
Conference Paper
The macroeconomic transition to high household debt - comments
Journal Article
Bank on Houston Effort Sees Big Returns as Residents Open Thousands of Accounts
Exceptionally high numbers of unbanked Houston residents are experiencing the advantages of having a bank account as the Bank on Houston program wraps up its second quarter of operation.
Journal Article
Fed economic and financial ed web site gets makeover
In April the Fed announced a major redesign of its financial education Web site as a way to increase use of Federal Reserve educational materials and promote economic and financial education in the classroom.
Discussion Paper
Payments, credit, and savings: the experience for LMI households
The Payment Cards Center and the Community Affairs Department invited Michael Barr, University of Michigan Law School and faculty investigator for the 2005-2006 Detroit Area Study (DAS), to collaborate in organizing a conference, ?Payments, Credit, and Savings: The Experience for LMI Households,? held May 21-22, 2007, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. This year?s DAS survey was designed to gain a better understanding of 1) how and why LMI households use a wide array of financial services as well as the costs and benefits of such services and 2) how LMI households would respond to ...
Newsletter
The U.S. personal saving rate
This month's newsletter focuses on the low and declining U.S. personal saving rate. As measured by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the U.S. personal saving rate fell into negative territory during the third quarter of 2005 and has remained close to zero since then.