March 5, 2014
Program Profile: YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
“Women helping women, women supporting women, women nurturing women, women growing by leaps...
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Access to Banking
December 11, 2013
Boys & Girls Clubs Of the Mississippi Valley's Teen Center
A child who witnesses their parents’ negative experiences or lack of any interaction with...
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Asset Poverty
November 7, 2013
Financial Imprisonment: How Financial Literacy & Debt Are Shaping Reentry
A new study from the University of Illinois surveyed 155 incarcerated men in two Midwestern prisons...
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Access to Banking
November 5, 2013
Program Profile: North Lawndale Employment Network
“Helping our clients build a solid credit history is quite rewarding because this will lead...
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Access to Banking
September 18, 2013
ACA & Unbanked Factsheet - How to Pay for Health Insurance
Beginning October 1st, 2013 Illinois residents will be able to purchase health insurance through...
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Asset Building Tools
September 4, 2013
Program Profile: Justine PETERSEN
It’s exciting to see the “light bulb” turn on as they begin to understand credit...
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Asset Building Tools
May 15, 2013
CFPB Releases Lessons Learned from Financial Education Providers
Throughout 2012 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sought insight into effective...
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Access to Banking
May 2, 2013
Program Profile: Economic Awareness Council
The Economic Awareness Council (EAC) provides financial capability programming to over 13,000 youth...
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Asset Building Tools
April 3, 2013
Program Profile: The Renaissance Collaborative
“The participants in our program were homeless for a myriad of reasons, loss of employment,...
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