People
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Moderator: Ray Boshara, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Discussant: Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
"Why Did Young Families Lose So Much Wealth During the Crisis? The Role of Homeownership" 
William Emmons (presenter) and Bryan Noeth, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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"Erasing the Advantage: Homeownership and the Impact of Financial Hardship on Health for Lower-Income Americans"
Kim Manturuk, University of North Carolina Center for Community Capital
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"Assessing Financial Capability Outcomes: Financial Counseling and Financial Access among Job Training Participants"
Nathalie Gons (presenter), Office of Financial Empowerment, New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, Kasey Wiedrich, Corporation for Enterprise Development, J. Michael Collins and Nicole Truog, University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Financial Security
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Places
Session highlights
Moderator: Alfreda Norman, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Discussant: Joseph B. McNeely, Central Baltimore Partnership
"Metropolitan Resilience, Precarious Housing, and the Durable State of Concentrated Poverty"
Rolf Pendall (presenter), Brett Theodos, Kait Franks, and Rebecca Grace, Urban Institute
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"Neighborhood Stability and Neighborhood Change: A Study of Housing Unit Turnover in Low-Income Neighborhoods"
Brett Theodos (presenter), Urban Institute, Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve University, and Rob Pitingolo, Urban Institute
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"Wal-Mart Moves Downtown: Implications of the Changing Retail Landscape for Low-Income Communities"
Jenny Schuetz, University of Southern California
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Using Data to Test and Tell
Session highlights
Moderator: Theresa Singleton, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Discussant: David E. Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
"Creating the Sustainable Communities Indicator Catalog" 
Eugenie L. Birch (presenter), Stuart Andreason, Amy Lynch, and Simon Mosbah, University of Pennsylvania
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"CWICstats: A Collaborative Model to Address the Research and Data Needs of Local Workforce Development Policymakers"
Elizabeth Weigensberg, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
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"Measuring the Impact of Clustered Housing Investment under the Federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program"
Ira Goldstein (presenter), Maggie McCullough, Katie Nelson, and Scott Haag, The Reinvestment Fund
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"Mapping Social Vulnerability to Enhance Housing and Neighborhood Resilience"
Shannon Van Zandt (presenter), Walter Gillis Peacock, Texas A&M University, Dustin Henry, City of Galveston, Himanshu Grover, State University of New York–Buffalo, and Wesley Highfield, Texas A&M University–Galveston
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"How to Build Community Resilience: Four Case Studies from Post-Katrina Mississippi"
Ann Carpenter, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Collaborating for the Future Roundtable
Session highlights
Moderator: David Erickson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Facilitator: Mark Pinsky, Opportunity Finance Network
Panelists:
Robert McNulty, Partners for Livable Communities
James Marks, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rachel Schneider, Center for Financial Services Innovation
Nicole Smith, Georgetown University
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II. Concurrent Sessions: Human Capital and Jobs, Housing, Rural Issues, and Small Business
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Moderator: Steven Shepelwich, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Discussant: Aaron R. Fichtner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
"We Got More Educated, We Are Better Off...Right?" 
Stuart Andreason, University of Pennsylvania
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"Job Creation for the Disadvantaged: A Review of State and Local Efforts"
Karen Chapple (presenter), University of California, Berkeley and Bob Giloth, Annie E. Casey Foundation
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"The Impact of Bus Transit on Employee Turnover: Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Samples"
Dagney Faulk (presenter) and Michael Hicks, Ball State University
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Moderator: Paul E. Kaboth, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Discussant: Alexander Chen, University of Maryland
"Housing Vouchers and the Price of Rental Housing"
Amanda Ross (presenter), West Virginia University and Michael Eriksen, University of Georgia
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"The Benefits of Pre-Purchase Homeownership Counseling"
Hoa Nguyen (presenter), Peter Zorn, and Gabriela Avila, Freddie Mac
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"The Social Impact of Home Rehabilitation in Low-Income Neighborhoods"
Erin Graves, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Moderator: Richard Todd, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Discussant: Chuck Hassebrook, Center for Rural Affairs
"Persistent Poverty in Rural America: Identifying the Nexus Between Land Tenure, Homeownership, and Long-Term Poverty"
Lance George, Housing Assistance Council
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"A Reassessment of the Social and Economic Benefits of Rural Schools on Local Communities: The Case of New York State"
John W. Sipple (presenter), Cornell University, Sutee Anantsuksomsri, Cornell University, Nij Tontisirin, Cornell University, and Joe Francis, Cornell University
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"Information Externalities and Small Business Lending by Banks: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Counties in the U.S."
Stephan Weiler (presenter), Colorado State University, Ronnie Phillips, Colorado State University, and Natalia Kravchenko, Philip Morris International
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"Broadband Internet in Rural and Minority Households: Adoption and Use of the Internet and Its Implications"
Peter Stenberg, Economic Research Service
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Moderator: Kausar Hamdani, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Discussant: Roberto E. Barragan, Valley Economic Development Center
"Navigating Uncertainty and Growing Jobs: Considering Small Employer Firm Resilience During Challenging Economic Times" 
Jean Horstman (presenter), Interise, Colleen Kamen, independent researcher, Christopher Behrer, independent researcher and New Sector Alliance Summer Fellow, Manjari Raman, Harvard Business School, Peter Russo, Boston University School of Management
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"Peer-to-Peer Lending to Small Businesses"
Traci Mach (presenter), Cailin Slattery and Courtney Carter, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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"Loan Availability among Small Businesses Operating in Urban Minority Communities"
Timothy Bates (presenter), Wayne State University, and Alicia Robb, Kauffman Foundation
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"Community-Based Asset Building: The Role Played by Credit Unions, Cooperatives and other Community-Based Businesses"
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, John Jay College, City University of New York
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