This week, Robin Hood and Columbia University's Population Research Center announced the release of the Fall 2014 Poverty Tracker, the second in a series of reports designed to provide a more dynamic picture of how people cope with poverty and hardship [...]

January 22 - Poptech! writes an in depth feature on Neighborhood Trust, CEO Justine Zinkin, and the Trust Card. Click here to read more. June 15 - Financial advisor Joseph Frewer is quoted by The New York Times article Bank Tool Is [...]

In the United States, building financial literacy early in life is critical to our country's future economic health. Five years into our economic recovery, nearly half (44%) of households are "liquid asset poor," according to 2014 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard [...]

In the netherworld of consumer debt, there are zombies: bills that cannot be killed even by declaring personal bankruptcy. Tens of thousands of Americans who went through bankruptcy are still haunted by debts long after — sometimes as long as [...]

When he needed money, the Manhattan cook went from bank to bank, applying for loans as small as $500—but no one would lend to him because he didn’t have collateral to secure the debt. “What I used to tell them [...]