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"People often decide to go back to school and start a new career when the economy gets bad, but this recession has gone on so long that the job market is weak even when they graduate," said Anne Stuhldreher, a senior fellow at the New America ...

... "This is the biggest grass-roots reaction that we’ve seen from the financial crisis yet," said Anne Stuhldreher, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute. ...

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The Federal Communications Commission released a proposal this month that starts the process of determining exactly how to enact the Local Community Radio Act. First things first? Dealing with the thousands of translator applications that have been pending for the last six years. And "My Life is True" -- a new public media project -- is trying to prove the premise that everyone’s got a story to share. Featuring Anne Stuhldreher and Douglas McGray.

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In 2005 San Francisco city leaders were surprised by new research that estimated that one in five San Francisco adults—and half of the city’s Blacks and Latinos—did not have bank accounts. These primarily working poor city residents faced a big disadvantage because they lacked this basic financial tool. In fact, many unbanked San Francisco residents reported paying 2 to 5 percent of their income just to cash their paychecks.

This Monday, one hundred twenty people packed into the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s offices in San Jose for a discussion on “Alternatives to the Payday Loan Trap.” The meeting was co-hosted with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Mayor Gavin Newsom and Treasurer José Cisneros today announced the launch of Kindergarten to College (K2C), the nation's first universal children's savings account program. K2C will open and seed college savings accounts for every kindergartner entering public school in San Francisco. The goal is to put all school children on the path to college.

The New America Foundation's Asset Building Program applauds the FDIC's (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) decision to establish a Model Safe Accounts Pilot program and encourages insured depositories, large and small, to participate, aiming at serving the unbanked and underbanked population.
 

"These accounts are hope in concrete form for kids," said Anne Stuhldreher, a senior research fellow at the nonprofit New America Foundation. ...

ALAMEDA COUNTY – New research estimates that Alameda County will miss out on $35.9 million in economic activity and 200 jobs that could have been generated this year by the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a federal refundable tax credit that brings refunds of up to $5,657 to lower income workers.

SAN DIEGO – New research estimates that San Diego County will miss out on $96 million in economic activity and more than 500 jobs that could have been created this year by the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a federal refundable tax credit that brings refunds of up to $5,657 to lower income workers.

MODESTO – New research estimates that Stanislaus County will miss out on $20 million in economic activity and more than 100 jobs that could have been generated this year by the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a federal refundable tax credit that brings refunds of up to $5,600 to lower income workers.

SAN BERNARDINO – New research estimates that San Bernardino County will miss out on $103 million in economic activity and more than 600 jobs that could have been created this year by the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a federal refundable tax credit that brings refunds of up to $5,657 to lower income workers.