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Children’s Savings Accounts

March 7th, 2007
Source: Newamerica.net

America’s personal savings rate is abysmally low. Last year the personal savings rate was negative, the lowest annual rate since the Great Depression. Whether the objective is to promote retirement security, improve educational attainment or increase financial literacy, the need to increase household savings is vitally clear.

Arkansas Higher Education Trust Fund to make college possible for every Arkansan

January 4th, 2007
By Kim Betton // KARK Channel 4

Mike Leach, Director of Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy Program, during a news conference at the state Capitol in January 2007 explains a report by the Policy Program that proposes creation of an Arkansas Higher Education Trust Fund to make college possible for every Arkansan. The report proposes that the Higher Education Trust Fund be financed from revenues generated by increasing Arkansas’ severance tax on natural gas production, which is the lowest in the nation and was last increased in 1957.

AR Supreme Court Hears Payday-Lending Case Arguments

November 7th, 2006

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A lawyer representing a consumers group asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday to repeal the state’s check cashers law.

Arkansas Assets and Opportunity Scorecard 2005 news conference at state Capitol

December 20th, 2005
By Melissa Dunbar // KTHV Channel 11

Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy Program in December 2005 hosted a news conference at the state Capitol to release the Arkansas Assets and Opportunity Scorecard 2005, a publication that outlined several key policy proposals to improve asset-building opportunities for Arkansans. Speakers at the news conference included 2nd Congressional District U.S. Representative Vic Snyder; State Senator Gilbert Baker of Conway; State Senator Shane Broadway of Bryant; and Mike Leach, Director of SGFF’s Policy Program.

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