As Americans face rising unemployment rates and greater uncertainty about the future in this current economic downturn, this report investigates the extent to which the American economy promotes upward economic mobility and prevents downward economic mobility.

These fact sheets summarize Pew’s policy recommendations to make checking accounts safer and more transparent.

On October 4, 2011, Susan Weinstock, director of the Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project, of the Pew Health Group delivered testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protections. The following is her written comments. more

This 2011 report looked at how these tools can help officials to better identify offenders at a high risk of reoffending, while also pinpointing the types of supervision and services that are most likely to prevent future criminal behavior and slow the revolving door of America’s prisons.

Recommendations related to this request for comment. more

The Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project responds to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’s call for comments on RIN No. 7100-AD68, Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks.
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The Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project responds to the FDIC’s call for comments on FIL-47-2010, Overdraft Payment Programs and Consumer Protection. The FDIC issued proposed guidance for public comment on how banking institutions it supervises should implement and maintain oversight of automated overdraft programs.

In 2010, South Carolina enacted a comprehensive package of sentencing and corrections legislation that puts the state at the forefront of states advancing research-driven criminal justice policies designed to produce a greater public safety return on corrections spending. more

This 2009 brief was part of a series of primers for policy makers about the critical choices they faced in developing strategies to improve the public safety return on taxpayer dollars.