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Try This at Home: Create a Family Lifeline to Weather Financial Storms

A blueprint for future community responses to government shutdowns and other crises. We constructed a way for an investor, a bank, and a philanthropy in our community to team up to make consumer loans to families in distress.

January 28, 2019

Understanding the Real Toll of the Government Shutdown

This is just the beginning of catastrophe for families in the US.

January 24, 2019
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