July 2014

7/31/14

IMF and OECD Call for Stronger EITC and Minimum Wage Far From the Border, Central American Children Find Familiar Faces Your Money, Your Goals: Financial empowerment tools for social services Learning From Virginia’s History of Marriage Discrimination – Or Not Public Justice: Obama Order Single Most Important Step for Civil Rights in 20+ Years

7/30/14

High-Tech Repo Men Are Reshaping Subprime Auto Lending 1 in 3 Americans with a Credit File Has Debt Reported in Collections CBPP: Social Security’s #1 Priority: Raise Share of Payroll Tax Going to Disability Insurance Order Provides $92M In Debt Relief For Servicemembers and Others Deceived By Lending Scheme

7/29/14

New Job Opening Posted Report: Delinquent Debt in America The Chief Judge’s Hearings on Civil Legal Services Grieving parents hit with $200,000 in student loans Thank You for Your Service: How One Company Sues Soldiers Worldwide Statement of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the 2014 Social Security Trustees’ Report

7/28/14

Pitfalls Emerge in Health Insurance Renewals Anti-Poverty Leaders Respond to Rep. Paul Ryan New amicus brief: A broader view of retiree health care Balancing Special-Education Needs With Rising Costs Consumer Advocacy on the FIDA Demonstration – Fully Integrated Dual Advantage – Managed Care Covering Medicare and Medicaid Services Starting 2015

7/25/14

Proposed Home Mortgage Disclosure Rule Buffalo’s out of town property owners: just more absentee landlords? Deep Poverty Among Children Worsened in Welfare Law’s First Decade Implications for Changing the Child Tax Credit Refundability Threshold How High Debt From The Housing Collapse Still Stifles Our Economy

7/24/14

HRA Materials Updated Insights on Instability and Children’s Development New Chart Book Paints Picture of Disability Insurance CFPB, FTC and States Announce Sweep Against Foreclosure Relief Scammers Income and Resource Limits for New York State Public Health Insurance Programs

7/23/14

New Job Opening Posted Responding to the Affordable Housing Crisis Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: By The Numbers Today’s Conflicting Court Decisions Won’t Affect Federal Marketplace Subsidies CBPP: Why the 1996 Welfare Law Is Not a Model for Other Safety-Net Programs Proposed Bill Would Keep Many For-Profit Schools From Targeting Military Servicemembers

7/22/14

New Job Opening Posted The ACLU’s history and mission Managed Long Term Care (Updated Article) LGBT Employment Policy Update: July 2014 CBPP: House Should Reject Backwards Child Tax Credit Bill Arcara issues injunction against Buffalo debt-collection operation