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Can Post Offices Increase Access to Financial Services?

Can Post Offices Increase Access to Financial Services?

Could postal banking through the U.S. Postal Service improve the availability of safe and affordable financial services?

Feb 1, 2017

Mathieu Despard, Terri Friedline, Kevin Refior

Do Metropolitan Areas have Equal Access to Banking?

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Do Metropolitan Areas have Equal Access to Banking?

A comparison of bank, credit union, and alternative financial service densities across U.S. metropolitan areas.

Feb 1, 2017

Mathieu Despard, Terri Friedline

Investing in the Future

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Investing in the Future

How do the financial services available within a community prevent or enable a household to invest in the future?

Feb 1, 2017

Terri Friedline, Mathieu Despard, Stacia West

Navigating Day-to-Day Finances

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Navigating Day-to-Day Finances

Preliminary understandings of whether the availability of financial services relates to households’ financial health.

Feb 1, 2017

Terri Friedline, Mathieu Despard, Stacia West

Resilient in the Midst of Financial Change

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Resilient in the Midst of Financial Change

This paper looks at how the densities of banks and alternative financial service providers may impact households’ financial health.

Feb 1, 2017

Terri Friedline, Mathieu Despard, Stacia West

Centering the Margins

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Centering the Margins

Social policy is supposed to promote equality. Read our proposal on how to listening can help policymakers meet that goal.

Jan 26, 2017

Rachel Black, K. Sabeel Rahman

Can Our Political Institutions Handle Our Political Divisions?

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Can Our Political Institutions Handle Our Political Divisions?

Lee Drutman argues that consolidated power in the executive branch only serves to deepen our divide.

Jan 25, 2017

Lee Drutman

Teacher Talent Untapped: Multilingual Paraprofessionals Speak �鶹��ý the Barriers to Entering the Profession

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Teacher Talent Untapped: Multilingual Paraprofessionals Speak �鶹��ý the Barriers to Entering the Profession

This report highlights the barriers multilingual paraprofessionals face in entering teaching in their own words.

Jan 12, 2017

Shayna Cook, Amaya Garcia, Kaylan Connally, Conor P. Williams

To Pay Ransom or Not to Pay Ransom?

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To Pay Ransom or Not to Pay Ransom?

American hostages are more likely to remain in captivity or die than other Western hostages.

Jan 8, 2017

Christopher Mellon, Peter Bergen, David Sterman

Education Agenda 2017

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Education Agenda 2017

�鶹��ý’s Education Policy program provides 10 recommendations for federal, state and local policy makers in 2017.

Jan 4, 2017

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Can Post Offices Increase Access to Financial Services?

Do Metropolitan Areas have Equal Access to Banking?

Investing in the Future

Navigating Day-to-Day Finances

Resilient in the Midst of Financial Change

Centering the Margins

Can Our Political Institutions Handle Our Political Divisions?

Teacher Talent Untapped: Multilingual Paraprofessionals Speak �鶹������ý the Barriers to Entering the Profession

To Pay Ransom or Not to Pay Ransom?

Education Agenda 2017

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�鶹��ý Celebrates 2026 Pulitzer Prizes

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Teacher Talent Untapped: Multilingual Paraprofessionals Speak �鶹��ý the Barriers to Entering the Profession