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Financial stability

  • Asset building

    The State of Low- and Moderate-Income Families in Texas: A Conversation with CPPP's Frances Deviney

    Frances Deviney of the Center for Public Policy Priorities off-site (CPPP) provided insights into the state of low- and moderate-income (LMI) families in Texas, as reflected in the CFED 2014 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard for Texas off-site. Deviney is the Texas KIDS COUNT director and senior research associate at CPPP, an independent research organization that works to ensure health care, nutrition, jobs, education and protection for LMI communities across the state through policy analysis, public education, advocacy, coalition-building and technical assistance. In her role, she tracks the status of child well-being by collecting and analyzing state and county-level data and helps coordinate CPPP's family economic security work.

  • Asset building

    One Crisis Away: A Behind-the-Scenes Conversation with KERA

    The Dallas Fed highlights One Crisis Away, a news series and forum on asset poverty in North Texas, presented by local public broadcaster KERA and Communities Foundation of Texas.

  • Working Paper

    Why Are Big Banks Getting Bigger?

    The U.S. banking sector has become substantially more concentrated since the 1990s, raising questions about both the causes and implications of this consolidation.

  • Working Paper

    Why Does the FDIC Sue?

    Cases the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) pursues against the directors and officers of failed commercial banks for (gross) negligence are important for the corporate governance of U.S. commercial banks.