Emple, Hannah and Sarah Cremer. Innovative Strategies for Community Engagement: Raising Awareness to Reduce Severe Maternal Morbidity. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. December 2020.
Emple, Hannah. Asset-Oriented Rental Assistance: Next Generation Reforms for HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program. New America. December 2013.
Weill, Jim, Hannah Emple, and Rachel Cooper. A Tightening Squeeze: The Declining Expenditures on Food by American Households. Food Research and Action Center. December 2011.
Emple, Hannah. Food Insecurity Among Children Ages 0-3 in Baltimore City: Barriers to Access and Initiatives for Change. University of Maryland School of Medicine and Congressional Hunger Center. February 2011.
Cha, PaHua and Hannah Emple. Food Insecurity Among Children: A Look At Baltimore City. Children’s HealthWatch. January 2011.
Articles
Emple, Hannah. Checking Your Balance in a SNAP. Slate. November 3, 2015.
Emple, Hannah. Donald Sterling and Other Landlords Openly Discriminate Against Low-Income Renters. National Journal. May 22, 2014.
Emple, Hannah. Donald Sterling’s racist rant: What it says about the flaws of America’s housing laws. Fortune Magazine/CNN.com. April 30, 2014.
Sprague, Aleta, Hannah Emple, and Elliot Schreur. Modernizing the War on Poverty. Dallas Morning News. February 21, 2014.
Emple, Hannah. This Tiny Housing Program Could Fix One of the Thorniest Issues for Low-Income Families. Business Insider. December 11, 2013.
Selected Blog Posts
Emple, Hannah. Legitimizing Racist Science, Naturalizing Health Disparities. Personal blog. August 26, 2014.
Emple, Hannah. A Simple Policy Change to Help More Hungry Kids Eat? Where Do We Sign Up? New America. May 27, 2014.
Emple, Hannah. Obama Cares about Improving Economic Mobility – But Where are the Specifics? New America. February 3, 2014.
Emple, Hannah. Settlement Resolves Latest Allegation of Racially Discriminatory Lending. New America. November 6, 2013.
Emple, Hannah. Broadband Access as an Asset Building Tool. New America. September 19, 2013.
Emple, Hannah. Former Bank of America Employees Report Widespread Abuses Throughout the Loan Modification Process. New America. June 17, 2013.
Emple, Hannah. Housing Discrimination: Racialized, Persistent and Hard for Victims to Detect. New America. June 12, 2013.
Emple, Hannah. Documenting Discrimination in Local Rental Markets. New America. May 1, 2013.
Emple, Hannah and Hibah Hussain. Mobile Financial Services: Implications for Privacy and Financial Inclusion. New America. April 3, 2013.
Emple, Hannah. From Bad to Worse: America’s Racial Wealth Gap. New America. February 27, 2013.
Emple, Hannah. The Inefficiency of the Mortgage Interest Deduction. The Surreal Estate, blog of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board. July 18, 2012.
Emple, Hannah. Food Stamps: An Economic Safety Net. New America. February 2, 2012.
Academic Writing
Emple, Hannah and Helen Hazen. Navigating Risk in Minnesota’s Birth Landscape: Care Providers’ Perspectives. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 13, Issue 2. Spring 2014.
Listen
Guest on the “Tanya Free and Friends” show (a political radio talk show aired out of Richmond, VA) to discuss racial wealth inequality. Full hour-long show. My 15-minute segment.
Quoted or Featured In
Abromowitz, David M. and Sarah Edelman. Work on the Family Self-Sufficiency Program cited in As More Households Rent, How Can We Encourage Them to Save? Center for American Progress. September 10, 2014. [PDF version]
Ellison, Charles. How Credit Checks Are Keeping Black People Unemployed. The Root. March 11, 2015.
“The most insidious and alarming part of the rise in credit-check use stems from its ostensibly race-neutral facade,” New America Foundation’s Hannah Emple explains. […] Emple views credit-check-based employment decisions as a way of “operationalizing racial discrimination in a supposedly race-neutral way that will [unfortunately] stand up to legal scrutiny until we make it illegal.”
Ellison, Charles. Critics: Credit Checks Perpetuate Discrimination. The Philadelphia Tribune. May 12, 2013.
“People of color are more likely to have ‘poor credit’ because of historical and contemporary forms of discrimination that limit opportunities,” argues Hannah Emple, a policy analyst with the New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program. “A low credit score thus becomes more of a proxy for a person’s experience with discriminatory structures rather than a measure of their ability to repay loans in a responsible and timely manner.”
Kaufmann, Greg. Blog content featured as a resource on “This Week in Poverty” at The Nation. August 30, 2013. June 21, 2013. May 10, 2013.