Debt | Credit Card Debt | Home Equity and Refinance | Asset Building | Race & Debt | Race

As Associate Director for Research and Policy, 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.

José's writings and opinions have appeared in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star, The News Journal, The New York Post, The Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, NY1, Univision, Telemundo, Univision and El Diario.

Prior to working at Demos, José was the Vice President for Policy at the National Institute for Latino Policy (NILP), where he was in charge of the program priorities for NILP. As a staff member, he published the East Coast Latino Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Manual and Latino Criminal Justice Statistical Abstract, among others.

José 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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