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01/20/09
The 2008 Family Impact Seminar was held on November 17th at the Indiana House Chamber in Indianapolis. The topic this year was "The Burden of the Unbanked in Indiana." The event is sponsored each year by the Consortium of Family Organizations (COFO) of which IEHA is a member. There were sixty in attendance including twenty-three legislators.The speakers and their topics were: Jeanne Hogarth, Program Manager for Consumer Education and Research, Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., "Pathways to Financial Access: Helping Families Connect with Banking Services" and Melissa Koide, Deputy director for the Asset Building Program, New America Foundation, Washington D.C., "Building Financial Stability: Policies to help Families Access Reasonably Priced Financial Services." A panel of Indiana legislators, Representatives Sheila Klinker and Woody Burton and Senator Sue Errington, responded to the speakers' comments. The Family Impact Seminars provide expert, nonpartisan information on a family-related topic of the legislators' choosing. We encourage Indiana legislators to consider the effect of new laws on Hoosier families, in the same routine manner that they consider the effect on business and industry and on the environment. Karen DeZarn
Assistant Program Leader, Purdue Extension
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