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1. Canada's tax system is stacked against low-income parents

Author

Laurin, Alex and Dahir, Nick

Subjects
Tax rates -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Demographic aspects, Personal income -- Social aspects -- Demographic aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Child care -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Company financing, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: ALEX LAURIN, NICK DAHIR Alex Laurin is director of research and Nick Dahir is a research assistant at the C.D. Howe Institute Parents across the country may be thinking [...]

Published
2022

2. Welfare and work

Author

Piven, Frances Fox

Subjects
Working parents -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Welfare state -- Social aspects, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, International relations, Law, Company financing, Finance, Social aspects
Abstract

This article is about the bearing of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWOA) of 1996 on labor markets, and especially on the low-wage labor market. The nationwide debate [...]

Published
1998

3. The poor play more

Author

Samuel, Leah

Subjects
Lotteries -- Social aspects, Lottery industry -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Contributing: Rupa Shenoy. Shawn Allee, Dominick Basta, Jocelyn Prince and Julia Steinberger helped research this article. It's just minutes before the televised noon lottery drawing, and hurried, last-minute players are [...]

Published
2002

4. Cashing in on poverty: how big business wins every time

Author

Hudson, Michael

Subjects
Pawnbroking -- Social aspects, Consumer credit -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Commercial finance companies -- Social aspects -- Finance, Company financing, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

THE RISE OF AMERICA'S POVERTY INDUSTRY is getting harder to miss these days. Turn on the TV, late night or daytime. Tucked amid the ads for psychic hotlines you'll hear [...]

Published
1996

5. Industry role: who should serve the financial needs of 'underserved' communities?

Author

Glassman, Cynthia A.

Subjects
Banks (Finance) -- Services, Banking industry -- Services -- Finance, Consumer credit -- Social aspects -- Services, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing, Banking industry, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Economics
Abstract

The assumption that without a convenient, physical, full-service, commercial bank branch, a community's financial service needs are unmet seems to be a broadly held view. Given that assumption, the current [...]

Published
1995

6. Drew's Million-Dollar Miracle

Author

Robbins, Sarah

Subjects
Kenya -- Social aspects, Food relief -- International aspects, Victims of famine -- Kenya -- Finance, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Actors -- Donations -- Social aspects, Actresses -- Donations -- Social aspects, Company financing, Fashion and beauty, Health
Abstract

Byline: --SARAH ROBBINS Drew Barrymore's gift to Africa's kids changed their lives--and her own. These days, almost every celebrity has a pet cause. They headline a benefit, walk the red [...]

Published
2008

7. It's revolutionary, and ridiculously simple: What poor people really need is a safe place to put their money

Author

Grant, Tavia

Subjects
Microfinance -- Social aspects -- Services, Financial institutions -- Services -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: TAVIA GRANT MICROFINANCE The great global rush to pour billions of dollars into microcredit to help the poor all but bypassed the basic building block of financial health: microsavings. [...]

Published
2011

8. MIcro-credit: band-aid or wound?

Author

Singh, Kavaljit and Wysham, Daphne

Subjects
Poverty -- Social aspects, Consumer credit -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing, Environmental issues
Abstract

A global campaign to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families receive credit for self-employment by the year 2005 was launched at a three-day Microcredit Summit in Washington, [...]

Published
1997

9. Seeking Common Ground

Author

Winerip, Michael

Subjects
Company financing, Soldiers -- Social aspects -- Finance, Demonstrations -- United States -- Social aspects, Pacifists -- Practice -- Donations -- Social aspects, Parenting -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects
Abstract

EVERY Wednesday since mid-August 2005 -- approximately 175 straight Wednesdays -- a couple of dozen women and men have gathered in front of the National Guard Armory here for 90 […]

Published
2009

10. 'Tis the season when generosity visits an 'invisible world'

Author

Gardner, Marilyn

Subjects
Social service -- Social aspects, Holidays -- Social aspects, Generosity -- Influence -- Social aspects, Charities -- Donations -- Social aspects, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing
Published
2007

11. Where bankers fear to tread

Author

Leadbeater, Charles

Subjects
Liverpool, England -- Social aspects, Credit unions -- England -- Social aspects -- Finance, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Loans -- England -- Social aspects, Company financing, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

Charles Leadbeater on a mutual credit scheme which is starting to put Liverpool's loan sharks out of business The woman was distraught. Her new-born baby had just died, and she [...]

Published
1998

12. Grass-roots banking: while Wall Street was in meltdown, sigrid rousing found an alternative model of lending thriving in Queens, New York

Subjects
Grameen Bank Bhaban -- Services -- Foreign operations -- Finance, Microfinance -- Social aspects -- Services, Banking industry -- Services -- Foreign operations, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing, Banking industry, Literature/writing, Political science
Abstract

On the morning of Friday 10 October, as even the mainstream US media were speculating about the possibility of the end of capitalism as we know it, I went to [...]

Published
2008

13. The Grameen Bank story: microlending for economic development

Author

Yunus, Muhammad

Subjects
Grameen Bank Bhaban -- Social policy -- Finance, Bank loans -- Social aspects, Banking industry -- Social policy -- Social aspects -- Finance, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Company financing, Banking industry, Finance, Social aspects, Social policy
Abstract

I never intended to be a banker. I was teaching economics at Chittagong University in Bangladesh and I was not happy with what I was teaching. Economics is supposed to [...]

Published
1997

14. Credit unions willing to give credit to the poor

Author

Hoeschen, Brad

Subjects
Wisconsin -- Social aspects, Credit unions -- Social policy -- Social aspects -- Finance, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Company financing, Business, Business, regional
Abstract

About 18 months ago, David Bitter opened a branch of Cornerstone Credit Union on North Avenue at 27th Street. Since opening, the credit union has attracted 200 members and collected [...]

Published
1997

15. Grameen's lessons

Author

Louis, Errol

Subjects
Grameen Bank Bhaban -- Social policy -- Finance, Bank loans -- Social aspects, Banking industry -- Social aspects -- Finance, Poor -- Finance -- Social aspects, Business, Economics, Company financing, Banking industry, Finance, Social aspects, Social policy
Abstract

During the 1960s and '70s, police often charged nonviolent protesters with 'failure to quit,' an offense similar to trespassing, for refusing to leave the scene of a demonstration when told [...]

Published
1997

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