Community Development & Education

The Case for Investments Over the Life Course
HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
Developing and Rehabilitating Affordable Apartments: Exploring Local Policies and Approaches
EVENT | April 8, 2025
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, the New York Fed will host a webinar on city and state policies that encourage the development and rehabilitation of affordable apartments. The webinar will feature housing professionals from small cities and towns in our District.

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Household Financial Well-Being
Examining Credit Insecurity in the United States
EVENT | APRIL 16, 2025
On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will host a virtual event to present findings of the report “Credit Insecurity in the United States: 2018–2023” and the recently updated Credit Insecurity Index. A panel of experts and practitioners will discuss the issue of credit insecurity, the findings of the report, and the uses of the index as a tool in their work.

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HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
Strengthening New York’s Food Economy
EVENT | April 24, 2025
On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the New York Fed will host an in-person event on building a stronger food economy in New York State. Sessions will focus on building resilience and capacity in the food economy, connecting small food producers with capital, supporting accessible and abundant local food systems, and enhancing community health.

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HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
Credit Insecurity in the United States: 2018-2023
BY Jake Scott, Ambika Nair, and Claire Kramer Mills | March 6, 2025
The report introduces a geographic measure of credit access across the United States called the Credit Insecurity Index. The index combines data about the share of adults without a credit score or file and the share who have limited access to affordable credit. The report uses the index to measure access to affordable credit at the national, state, city, town, and county level.

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HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
2024 Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Employer Firms
March 27, 2025
The 2024 Small Business Credit Survey data suggest that employment growth, along with expectations for revenue and employment growth, held steady between the 2023 and 2024 surveys. But for the first time since the 2021 survey, firms were more likely to report that revenues decreased rather than increased in the prior 12 months.
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Health
Social Prescribing: A Snapshot from the Field
EVENT | March 21, 2025
On Friday, March 21, 2025, the New York Fed hosted a webinar on potential economic benefits of social prescribing, the practice of medical prescribing for patients to participate in community activities such as creating and viewing art, joining social groups, and volunteering. The webinar was of of interest to healthcare providers, insurers, and foundations.

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Household Financial Well-being
Investing in the Creative Workforce for a Strong Economy
EVENT | February 12, 2025
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with Creatives Rebuild New York, hosted a hybrid event highlighting how the creative community and its workforce can drive a healthy economy across New York state and the nation.

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Health
Global Investments in Health: The Infrastructure of Everyday Well-being
EVENT | February 5, 2025
On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York hosted a virtual event focused on investment strategies to address the social determinants of health to improve health and economic outcomes for communities. Topics included strategies for developing infrastructure that advances health, mobility, and sustainability.

Affordable Housing
HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
Innovations in Baby Bonds
EVENT | January 16, 2025
On Thursday, January 16, 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with Asset Funders Network and the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School, hosted an in-person event highlighting how strategic investments in baby bonds, combined with direct financial assistance, can address wealth inequality.
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Household Financial Well Being
The Missing Markets Initiative
BY David Erickson | November 6, 2024
The report analyzes overlapping vulnerabilities across under-resourced communities and introduces the Making Missing Markets initiative. The initiative examines cross-sector interventions that target the upstream determinants of health equity, climate adaptation and resilience, and economic growth, while connecting previously siloed resources dedicated to tackling these problems.

Affordable Housing
Climate
Book: “What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods”
May 17, 2024
Learn about What’s Possible, a collaboration of Enterprise, LISC, and the New York Fed. The book gathers the voices of leading climate and community development experts and offers practical solutions for clean energy, resilience, and equity, intended as a playbook for taking collective action to build a stronger, more inclusive future.
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ECONOMIC EDUCATION
High School Fed Challenge
PROGRAM
The Federal Reserve System High School Fed Challenge offers the opportunity for students to develop skills in teamwork, research, data literacy, and analytical writing. Student teams author economics research and pursue an opportunity to be published in the Journal of Future Economists.
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