by Louis Deas | Apr 30, 2025 | Financial Literacy, Media Interview
Image: Black Enterprise Black Enterprise wrote about the ideas I have been pushing to make renting a path toward ownership instead of a dead end. A rent reduction for tenants who raise their credit score from 600 to 700. A “life event credit”: after 18...
by Louis Deas | Apr 29, 2025 | Events & Appearances, Financial Literacy
Image: Isaac M. Cooper Birmingham opened IMC Financial Freedom Project Week with a Financial Literacy State of the Union at the historic Carver Theatre, and I was glad to share the stage with Mayor Randall Woodfin and Dr. Sullivan. When a mayor makes financial...
by Louis Deas | Apr 24, 2025 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Drive fifteen minutes in almost any American city and you can cross from one economy into another. On one side of town, check cashers, payday lenders, title lenders and liquor stores share the same block. On the other side you find grocery stores, parks, sit-down...
by Louis Deas | Apr 24, 2025 | Bryant | Media Interview, Financial Literacy, Media Interview, The Silver Rights Movement
Image: Forbes Jabari Young, senior writer at Forbes, sat down with me for a 45-minute conversation during Financial Literacy Month. The headline Forbes chose says it plainly: financial literacy is the new civil rights movement. My grandparents’ generation fought...
by Louis Deas | Apr 22, 2025 | Entrepreneurship, Events & Appearances
Image: Historic American Buildings Survey (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons It was a true honor to be invited to the United States Military Academy at West Point. I joined Don Peebles, Tracy Maitland and Kneeland Youngblood in a class led by Frank Luntz to talk...
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