Community Development Publications and Reports

Featured Publications

  • Access to Credit and Financial Services: A Bridge to Financial Well-being. A collage of photos shows individuals shaking hands, a customer visiting a bank teller, and someone writing notes on a tablet.

    Access to Credit and Financial Services: A Bridge to Financial Well-being

    Two analyses describe low- and moderate-income individuals’ access to credit and how this group broadly interacts with financial institutions and services.

  • Disconnected young adults: a look at the Eighth Federal Reserve District.

    Disconnected Young Adults: A Look at the Eighth Federal Reserve District

    How are high levels of economic disconnection among young adults nationwide reflected in our region? Our 2024 report examines young adults who are neither in school nor working by geography, race, education and income to better understand who makes up this population, their labor market experiences and what barriers to greater economic participation they may face.

  • Daycare providers and children play with toys at a table

    Economic Impact of Child Care by State

    Get child care data for all 50 states, including affordability estimates, labor force participation rates and statistics about workforce-related struggles facing child care providers. Fact sheets prepared by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis researchers.

Archived Community Development booklets, guides, and brochures and reports and research can be found on FRASER, the digital library of economic history.