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Katherine Lucas McKay, Senior Policy Analyst

Areas of Expertise: Federal Policy, Policy Analysis

Katherine Lucas McKay is Senior Policy Analyst at CFED. She works with the federal policy team to promote effective public policies that expand economic opportunity for all people, particularly with regard to comprehensive wealth and asset building, microenterprise development and financing and community reinvestment.

Previously, Ms. Lucas McKay was the Special Assistant to the Chief Business Officer at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). She coordinated activities among NCRC's business development initiatives-the DC Minority Business Enterprise Center, the DC Women's Business Center, and the NCRC Community Development Fund-and worked with NCRC's policy and research departments to ensure that these programs' experiences and perspectives informed the organization's advocacy on entrepreneurship and wealth building opportunities. She has written articles, speeches and Congressional testimony on topics including community and economic development, the foreclosure crisis, financial reform and job creation strategies. Ms. Lucas McKay has been involved in the community economic development field as a practitioner, a researcher and an advocate, and has experience with economic development policy in the United States and Latin America.

Ms. Lucas McKay is a native of South Florida and a graduate of Wellesley College, where she studied Political Science and Spanish and graduated with honors.

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Most Recent Blog Posts

Apr 25, 2013

CFPB Releases New Payday Research

Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a new white paper examining payday and deposit advance loans.

Apr 3, 2013

Why You Should Take the Microenterprise Census Survey

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Jul 30, 2012

2012 Microenterprise Census: Micro Matters

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Jul 26, 2012

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Jul 9, 2012

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On July 5, the House Agriculture Committee unveiled its draft Farm Bill legislation with some very bad news for assets advocates

Jun 28, 2012

CFED Publishes Advocates’ Guide to Self-Employment Assistance Program Expansion

Last month, the Department of Labor (DOL) sent a Guidance Letter to each state’s economic development and workforce agencies

May 17, 2012

Budget Cuts Threaten Critical Source of Data on U.S. Households Via the American Community Survey

Last week, the House of Representatives approved appropriations legislation that would eliminate the American Community Survey, a Census Bureau product that provides much of the best data on American families' income and finances.

Feb 22, 2012

Self-Employment Assistance Program Sees Major Expansion

For the past two years, CFED has kept you up-to-date on an innovative proposal to expand access to entrepreneurship

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