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		<title>An Arkansas Higher Education Trust Fund: Making College Possible for Every Arkansan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Savings For Working Families Act S. 922</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Savings for Working Families Act (SWFA) ensures that our nation&#8217;s savings and ownership policies assist working-poor families by enabling them to save, build wealth, and enter the financial mainstream through the use of a financial product tailored to their&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Rena Starting a Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img style="border: 0pt none;" title="rena" src="http://arassetpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/rena.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="227" align="right" />The Central Arkansas Development Council&#8217;s IDA program is built on the success of people involved. Mrs. Rena Stevenson and her husband Darnell Stevenson are just two of the many participants in the program that find success. In 2005, Rena and&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>IDA Program Helps People Learn How To Save And Work Toward Goal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just under 70 percent of American families own their homes. But it can be awfully tough for many working Americans who live paycheck-to-paycheck to save enough for that all-important down payment.

That's where a network of local programs comes in — to help people learn how to save and give them a boost toward their goal.

Thirty-two-year-old Maria Cruz is raising four boys on her own. There's Evan. The inquisitive one —]]></description>
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		<title>Legislation To Rein In Abusive Payday Lending</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This bill would put teeth into the Arkansas Constitution's usury limit of 17% annual interest on consumer loans, which was adopted by the people of Arkansas in 1982 as Amendment 60 to our state Constitution.]]></description>
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		<title>An Act to Create the Family Saving Initiative Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>SECTION 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the &#8220;Family Savings Initiative Act&#8221;.</p>
<p>SECTION 2.  The purpose of the Family Savings Initiative Act is to provide for the establishment of individual development accounts designed to:</p>
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