Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers to Immigrant Financial Empowerment

Summary

The Northwest Queens Financial Education Network, composed of CDP, Chhaya CDC, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and Queens Community House (QCH) worked on this report, which is based on 253 surveys. It explores how immigrants in Northwest Queens save and manage money and the barriers they face in doing so. The report also provides concrete suggestions for how policy makers and financial institutions can improve financial empowerment for immigrant communities in Queens and across New York City.

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