(November 12, 2018) This book locates CDFI in the long history of efforts to address financial exclusion. It weaves together the streams that made CDFI possible—philanthropy, grassroots organizing, and a federal initiative inspired by candidate Bill Clinton’s call for a network of “100 community development banks and 1,000 microenterprise programs.” It highlights figures like Gale […]

Lower-Paid Employees Encounter Higher Fees, Charges It’s not that often that credit unions find their way into the business section of the New York Times: usually, if there’s some sort of financial disaster (i.e., 2009), if a Trump advisor goes bust in his taxi cab medallion business (i.e., Michael Cohen), or  very occasionally, if there’s […]