Career Pathways
Southern established the Career Pathways program in 2004 at Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas. Career Pathways seeks to provide financial assistance for low-income individuals who want to take career training and college classes at an Arkansas two-year college. Since the program’s inception, grant totals have surpassed $70 million and served 21,000 students who have earned almost 19,000 certificates and degrees.
As Public Funding Ends, Opportunities Remain to Help People Save
Southern Bancorp is committed to encouraging healthy savings habits, encouraging policy changes that incentivize individual and family savings programs, and removing policy barriers to accessing savings. That’s because...
Rural Economic Mobility and Wealth Building
Despite the general economic recovery in the United States, income inequality and wealth inequality are expanding. Perhaps more critically, it is becoming more and more difficult for families...
New CFED data showing state of family economic security in Arkansas
This week, the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) released its annual Assets and Opportunity Scorecard. The Scorecard provides a comprehensive look at Americans’ capacity to accumulate wealth by...