Research

This page includes research articles and data from the Buffalo and Erie County community on topics relevant to CASH's work. For more information, please see links to downloadable PDF files below.

Poverty and Self Sufficiency

• From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families (file size 5,600kb)
  
  
• American Community Survey, Buffalo, NY 2006 (file size 72kb)
  
  
• American Community Survey , Erie County, NY 2006 (file size 72kb)
  
  
• The Self-Sufficiency Standard for New York (file size 488kb)

Asset Building

• Assets Report 2007: A Review, Assessment and Forecase of Federal Assets Policy (file size 176kb)
  
  
• Assets_Agenda 2007: Policy Options to Promote Savings and Asset Ownership By Low- and Moderate Income Americans (file size 292kb)
  
  
• Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households: Current Availability and Options for Improvement, October 2007 (file size 472kb)
  
  
• Report on the Asset-Development and IDA Field, December 2001 (file size 45,000kb)
  
  

Economy

• Place_Matters: Employeers, Low-Income Workers, and Regional Economic Development (file size 84kb)
  
  
• Employeer IDA Initiatives: The Promise of Delivering IDAs Through Employers (file size 152kb)
  
  
• Using Earned-Income Tax Credit to Stimulate Local Economies (file size 68kb)
  
  
• Delivering a Local ETIC: Lessons from the San Francisco Working Families Credit (file size 344kb)

Safety Net

• Framework for a New Safety Net for Low-Income Working Families (file size 280kb)
  
  
• 2002_Federal IDA_Briefing Book: How IDSs Affect Elegibility for Federal Programs (file size 452kb)
  
  
• The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the early 2000's (file size 2,300kb)
  
  

Financial Education

• Assessing Adult Financial_Literacy and Why It Matters (file size 3,500kb)