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Jose Garcia

As Senior Research and Policy Associate, José is responsible for providing statistical and policy analysis for the Economic Opportunity Program on issues such as household debt and assets. He is co-author of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies are Drowning Americans in Debt, published by Demos and The New Press in April 2008.

Jose is author of a number of recent Demos reports, including In the Red or in the Black? Understanding Relationship between Household Debt and Assets and Borrowing to Make Ends Meet: The Rapid Growth of Credit Card Debt in America. Jose’s expert writings and opinions have appeared in the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, Baltimore Sun, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Kansas City Star, The Baltimore Sun, The News Journal, The New York Post, Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, NY1, Univision, Telemundo, Univision and El Diario.

Prior to working at Demos, Jose was the Vice President for Policy at the National Institute for Latino Policy (NILP), where he was in charge of the program priorities. As a staff member, he published the East Coast Latino Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Manual and Latino Criminal Justice Statistical Abstract, among others. Jose received his Masters in Social Work with a concentration in Social Policy from the University of Connecticut, where he received the Alumni Award and his Bachelors from Dayton University where he received the O'Reilly Award for Service Leadership.

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