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A report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), Bank Branch Closures from 2008-2016: Unequal Impact in America’s Heartland, finds that bank closures since the Great Recession have diminished access to financial services in both urban and rural areas. Lack of access to financial…
The progress of efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain unclear.Proposals to repeal the ACA Medicaid expansion and to convert Medicaid to a block grant or per-capita capped financing model have created controversy within the Republican Party and beyond. The Congressional…
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Poverty Reduction Programs Help Adults Lacking College Degrees the Most, finds that 87% of working-age adults (18 to 64 years of age) lifted out of poverty by poverty-reduction and safety net programs are in families that have no…
A report by Elizabeth Kneebone at the Brookings Institution examines poverty trends in Republican and Democratic congressional districts. The report, titled Poverty Crosses Party Lines, demonstrates the existence of poverty in every congressional district in the U.S., regardless of whether the…