Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes,
Financial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining income
Over the past three decades, average household wealth in the United States has declined among all but the richest families, with a near 80 percent drop among th
A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publication Poor people spend their money living day to day. How can they
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