By Mike LaFontaine
The latest news reports have the housing market rebounding. But that depends on which “market” you’re talking about.
For low-income renters across New England, very little has changed. Finding safe, decent housing that’s
By Julie McConnell
This recent blog post by the Castine Advocacy Coalition for Early Education in Maine offers a solid and timely reminder of why states and local communities need to share the responsibility of investing in early care and education.
By Mike LaFontaine
Care to test your knowledge of what it’s like to be really poor? I dare you.
The Coalition on Human Needs and two other national organizations have created a test to measure just how much (or little) ordinary people really
By Juliana Eades
An editorial this week in the Nashua Telegraph dropped us in the middle of the current political storm over earmarks, mentioning that Senators Judd Gregg and Jeanne Shaheen had requested $500,000 for the New Hampshire Community Loan
By Mike LaFontaine
Spotted this statement in a profile of MIT professor and economist Esther Duflo in the The New Yorker (May 17, 2010). Dr. Duflo studies the economies of developing countries, but her observations offer a helpful insight for our
By Julie McConnell
A recent New York Times article demonstrates that the child care crisis is real and daunting for working families.
Government-funded child care assistance programs across the U.S. – including here in New Hampshire – are unable to
By Sally Hatch
I’m privileged to work every day with investors in the Community Loan Fund – from individuals with small investments to the largest foundations and financial institutions. They have many different motivations for investing with us,
By Julie McConnell
I recently referenced an op-ed piece in the New York Times, “Escaping From Poverty,” in which Nicholas Kristof advocated early childhood education as a major tool for fighting poverty. Kristof was influenced by the work of
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