Family Income and Assets

Many community challenges can’t be overcome if families live at poverty levels, so living-wage jobs, career paths and techniques to boost income are an across-the-board topic. Indeed, one sign of a thriving community is that residents feel confident that their lives will improve, their incomes rise, and their job prospects widen while they are living there.

Achieving economic stability is a process that builds upon itself. It requires long-term planning and commitment from individuals and families. Economic stability is a combination of adequate income and good financial management behavior.

This section presents strategies and tools designed to connect low-to-moderate income families to the financial and labor market mainstream.

Handbooks & Manuals

Practitioner Templates

Training Materials

Neighborhoods and Labor Markets Seminar. This first seminar of a three-part series was held on June 20, 2011. It features a discussion between researchers and front-line professionals about the ways that low-income neighborhoods are linked — and can be linked — to their regional economies. Videos posted of the June 20 Neighborhoods and Labor Markets Seminar

Related background papers and materials:
	Finding -- and filling jobs -- means building relationships, by Patrick T. Reardon, Jun 24, 2011
	City and Suburban Job Holding and Job Locations Background Tables for LISC-Urban Institute-Federal Reserve Discussion Series by Chris Walker, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Jun 1, 2011. This paper provides background information on resident employment and job locations for six metropolitan areas.
	Neighborhood Employment Strategies in Metropolitan Labor Markets Prepared for the LISC-Urban Institute-Federal Reserve Discussion Seriesby Mark Elliott, Economic Mobility Corporation, Jun 1, 2011. This paper examines the efforts over the last three decades to link the unemployed and under-employed with jobs. Elliott finds that two widely used efforts — transporting workers to jobs out of their neighborhoods and using enterprise zones to lure employers into in-city communities — had no appreciable effect. He also provides a list of suggestions for those working today to link jobs and workers.

Other Resources

LISC’s Family Income and Wealth Building program is designed to connect low-to-moderate income families to the financial and labor market mainstream. The core of LISC's model is offering employment and career services, financial education and coaching, and low-cost financial products that encourage investment and savings. For more information, click here: http://www.lisc.org/section/ourwork/national/family.

Case Studies, Articles & Reports

It's the economy, stupid! -- Part 1 of 6, By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, February 14, 2011
It's the economy, stupid! -- Part 2 of 6, By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, February 21, 2011
It's the economy, stupid! -- Part 3 of 6, By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, February 28, 2011
It's the economy, stupid! -- Part 4 of 6, By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, March 7, 2011
It’s the economy, stupid! -- Part 5 of 6, By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, March 14, 2011
It's the economy, stupid! -- Part 6 of 6, By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, Mar 21, 2011

Family Income and Assets

Handbooks & Manuals

Practitioner Templates

Training Materials

Other Resources

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