Financing with finesse : a credit union project for a person with disabilities

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dc.contributor.advisorKarim, Abubakr M.
dc.contributor.authorGiroux, Ray
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-25T16:08:13Z
dc.date.available2010-01-25T16:08:13Z
dc.date.issued2001en_US
dc.description.abstractPersons with disabilities are overwhelmingly unemployed and under-employed. In fact, 68.9% of working age individuals with a severe disability are not employed, as compared to 15.6% of those with no disability (Table 1). The presence of a disability is associated with lower levels of income and an increased likelihood of being in poverty, with the proportion of persons falling into the below-poverty category being 12.2 percent among those with no disability as opposed to 24.3 percent among those with a severe disability (McNeil). Persons with disabilities are also more likely to be dependent on fixed income public support programs such as SSI or SSDI and TANF (and in fact constitute 50.6% of all individuals participating in means-tested assistance programs), which limit the amount of money an individual can accumulate, and have lower relative incomes than the general population (McNeil, 1997). Subsequently, persons with disabilities have difficulty generating significant saving or gaining access to credit and are often unable to provide the funds necessary for the day-to-day business of living including such things as a down payment on a dependable vehicle, the security deposit for an apartment, or money for school or training. This project will work with the disability cmmunity of Manchester, N.H., to examine the state of financial services used and needed by its members and evaluate the capacity of the local community to support an effort to outline and address the needs (phase one). If sufficient need and capacity is found to exist, work will proceed to establish partnerships with other community groups and businesses to produce the needed services, perhaps in conjunction with the Credit Union Pilot Demonstration Project of Project Dollars and Sense, which is in the process of establishing an infrastructure to address similar problems in other communities (phase two). (Author abstract)en_US
dc.description.bibliographicCitationGiroux, R. (2001). Financing with finesse: a credit union project for a person with disabilities. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science (M.S.)en_US
dc.description.schoolSchool of Community Economic Developmenten_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/159
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire Universityen_US
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dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibiteden_US
dc.rightsHolderGiroux, Ray
dc.sourceOriginal format: Bound CED Project Report, Shapiro Library, Southern New Hampshire Universityen_US
dc.subject.lcshSouthern New Hampshire University -- Theses (Community Economic Development)en_US
dc.subject.othercredit unionen_US
dc.subject.otherasset buildingen_US
dc.subject.otherManchester (NH)en_US
dc.subject.otherNew Hampshire (US)en_US
dc.subject.otherdisabled personsen_US
dc.titleFinancing with finesse : a credit union project for a person with disabilitiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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