There’s no doubt about it – money can get complicated. It’s emotional, compromising, and slippery, especially when one doesn’t understand how to use it to work for them. That’s an issue of [...]
For many American consumers, 2023 represents an opportunity to begin rebuilding their financial health and wellness goals that were essentially detonated with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic three years ago this month. With federal [...]
There’s no doubt about it – money can get complicated. It’s emotional, compromising, and slippery, especially when one doesn’t understand how to use it to work for them. That’s an issue of [...]
The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund would receive a healthy five percent increase in funding, or $17 million, in 2024 thanks to the Biden administration’s proposed $6.9 trillion proposed budget. The CDFI [...]
CUNA CEO Jim Nussle was spitting fire Monday on the value of credit unions as he took center stage during CUNA’s annual Governmental Action Conference (GAC), emphasizing the cooperative movement’s mission to promote [...]
Even as he was serving as chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) from 2019-2021, current Board member Rodney Hood always had an eye on the road ahead for the credit union movement, zeroing [...]
Nurturing a credit union community of diversity, equity, and financial inclusion begins at the top, and it can rise from the most unexpected backgrounds. In observance of Black History Month, the credit union movement continues [...]
As we stated on last week’s blog on “rent-a-banks,” the battle against the slippery predatory payday lenders is a long one; like a costly game of Whack-A-Mole, their wealthy backers and Washington lobbyists continue [...]
As if you didn’t expect it, the battle continues in the financial services sector to eradicate predatory payday lenders in the United States. Despite individual states’ gains in recent years to cap payday loans’ [...]
These first days of the new year offer an opportunity for many of us to get back in the groove and jump on those personal and financial targets that will get our 2023 off to [...]
The price of household heating like kerosene and heating oil remains so high it makes sense that credit unions in Maine are witnessing a rise in loan applications from members hoping to install appliances that [...]
Christmas may be brutal for many families in 2022, particularly with residual pandemic stresses. And they feel it coming. They have been holding on to budgets (or not!) for most of the year, and they’[...]
The other day, I bought a certain food product. An otherwise tasty bag of chips from a certain brand of which, for obvious legal consequences, I’ll refrain from putting on blast. Aside from the [...]
In late August of this year, Inclusiv/Capital director Cathi Kim had the opportunity to attend the initial Native American Financial Institutions Gathering discussing the subject of Native CDFIs at the Center for Indian Country [...]
Our battle with gas prices has been among the most eye-catching topics since the cost skyrocketed in the first half of 2022, ultimately topping $5.02 per gallon on June 18. In some parts of [...]
