Payday Lenders, Pawn Shops, and Check Cashers: A Deeper Spatial Dive
Locating (Payday) Lenders in the context of targeted populations
Payday Lenders and Banking Swamps
Food and banking access is low in many areas where payday lending thrives
Poverty and Wealth
To conclude a series of posts for Black History Month, we look at incremental progress on poverty, yet persistent gaps in both poverty and wealth.
Trends in Black Median Household Income
While black median household income remains significantly than the overall median, it is growing faster than the overall trend, since 2011.
Financial Health & Ethnicity of Metro Atlanta
This post explores data from the Urban Institute on the financial health and racial makeup of Atlanta's Public Use Microdata Areas.
Income Inequality and Black Wealth: Opinions from Metro Atlanta Speaks
How do Atlanta residents rate the importance of enhanced income equality to our economy, and, following on, what seems to be their current knowledge base about the size of the highly related racial wealth gap?
Friday Factday: Wealth and Net Worth in the Metro
Wealth and net worth are two critical and under-examined measures of financial well-being and success. This Friday Factday takes a look at both variables in 20 metro-area counties and explores the implications around visible geographic disparities in wealth.