Impact University: Predatory Financial Practices

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No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans >

Barr's analysis of America's recent financial crisis traces the history of its causes, and identifies the continuing influences of these forces on both financial structures and individual behavior. The most vulnerable, Barr contends, continue to shoulder our collapsed financial system.

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Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking Among Low-Income Households >

As editors, Blank and Barr invite cross-disciplinary thinkers to approach the question: What forces deny access to financial responsibility for low-income households? This volume reconfigures notions of poverty, revealing inevitable--sometimes invisible--tensions between our citizenry and financial structures.

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