This bibliography contains complete citations for research and resources related to alternative depository institutions including: community development banks, community development credit unions, low income credit unions and mainstream credit unions.
Uses data from the Veritec Solutions February 2006 report on Illinois lending under the Payday Loan Reform Act and data collected by the Monsignor John Egan Campaign for Payday Loan Reform in 2004 to calculate the success of the act in reducing the cost of traditional payday loans and the high cost of new installment loans designed to evade the protections provided by the act.
Guide to Economic Indicators is a reference to key facts and metrics critical to community development. The guide contains hundreds of facts on consumer assets, spending patterns, international remittances, retirement savings, pensions, Social Security, the community development financial institutions industry, credit card debt, payday lending, predatory mortgage lending, and the Community Reinvestment Act.
Woodstock Institute will host the Chicago premiere of the new documentary Maxed Out
which exposes the absurdities and contradications of the modern
financial system and how they have contributed the record level of
household debt. The premiere, hosted by Chicago Public Radio's Steve
Edwards of "Eight Forty-Eight," will include a panel of national
experts on the debt crisis, including Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America author
Barbara Ehrenreich and director James Scurlock. Local organizations
will also be on hand to discuss what they are doing to help put working
families' finances back on track.
