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Oklahoma Assets Presents: High Cost Lending SummitJune 12, 2012
Oklahomans turn to high-cost lenders at a much higher rate than the national average. Low- and moderate-income households are particularly likely to turn to loan products with high interest rates that chip away at their disposable income. Oklahoma Assets invites you to join us for a 1-day summit on high cost lending in the state. The summit will facilitate information sharing on the extent a…
Benchmarking Asset Development in Fighting Poverty
A presentation by Dr. David Blatt, Director of Oklahoma Policy Institute and Steven Shepelwich, Senior Community Development Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Assets mean economic security. Yet impoverished families frequently lack the means to build assets. Some are even sanctioned by public assistance programs from accumulating the wealth they need to escape povert…
Affordable Credit in Oklahoma: Asset-building and Financial Security
Access to credit has become a necessity for modern American living, touching virtually every aspect of our lives. Many consumers need credit to buy a house or a car, get an education, pay for medical expenses, or start a busi- ness. Credit is also increasingly necessary to make daily purchases at automated points of sale and through the Internet. ‘Credit’ is a generic term for an array of finan…