Six Steps that City Leaders Can Take to Increase Family Economic Security
- Date: February 28, 2013
- Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
- Category: Webinar
Overview
This webinar will feature strategies described in a new report published by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and NLC's Institute for Youth, Education and Families. The report, Taking the First Step: Six Ways to Start Building Financial Security and Opportunity at the Local Level, highlights innovative, low-cost or no-cost ideas for how city officials can get started in helping families achieve financial stability. These strategies include raising awareness about available services and consumer protections; increasing access to financial education and safe, affordable financial products; preventing foreclosures and predatory lending; and developing model human resource policies.
Webinar speakers will include:
- Sybongile Cook, Program Manager - Economic Development, Banking Bureau, Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking, District of Columbia
- The Honorable Ann M. Horton, Mayor Pro Tem, City of Bryan, Texas
- Ida Rademacher, Chief Program Officer, CFED
Speakers will discuss how the six strategies featured in the report have laid the foundation for robust, citywide financial empowerment agendas.
