Clik here to view.
Asset Building News Week, Mar 5-9
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on the The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
View ArticleChildren's Savings Account Update
Our friend Karen Harris from the Shriver Center in Illinois has a nice post up at The Shriver Brief detailing some new developments around Children's Savings Accounts at the state and local level,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Testimony of Michael Calabrese Before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy of...
Retirement (In)security: Examining the Retirement Savings Deficit Author(s): Michael CalabreseMarch 28, 2012Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, for this opportunity to testify today....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing The Assets Report 2012 and Infographic!
Every year, the Asset Building Program analyzes the President's budget request to see how much goes to support asset building policies. More importantly, we keep tabs on how this money is spent because...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Federal Budget that Puts Higher Education within Reach: the ASPIRE Act and...
Going to college and getting an education has long been regarded as a reliable path out of poverty. And for good reason. Research by the Pew Economic Mobility Project shows that children in the bottom...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Big Idea: An Investment Account for Every Child at Birth
GOOD Magazine is running a series on the ideas that SHOULD be debated during the Presidential campaign, as they say,The 2012 presidential race is well underway, and we're talking about the important...
View ArticleBig Idea: Give Every Child a $500 Savings Plan
April 23, 2012Justin KingApril 23, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/66764 Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rahm Emanuel and Chuck Schumer walk into a bar. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke,...
View ArticleWhat the President Really Should have been Slow Jammin' with Jimmy Fallon About
Last night, President Obama took to the Late Night stage to deliver his call to action to prevent interest rates on federal student loans from doubling in July...slow jam style. He focused his message...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Asset Building News Week, April 23-27
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Summarizing the Research: The Impact of Student Loans on College Graduation
The topic of student loans is being debated in the Senate this week, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle hoping to pass legislation that would curb rising interest rates. Without legislation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Better Way to Make College More Affordable
This blog post was originaly published on the National Community Tax Coalition's blog WorkForward. The wrangling over the jump in student loan rates scheduled to take place on July 1st has placed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Case for Extending Financial Inclusion to Children
The Role of Parents’ Financial Resources and Implications for Policy Innovations June 1, 2012Terri FriedlineChildren are significantly more likely to maintain a relationship with financial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Assets and "The Other America"
Earlier this week, Demos held a great conference commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Michael Harrington’s The Other America. The conference coincided with the publication of The American...
View ArticleChildren's Saving Accounts on MSNBC's "The Cycle"
As part of their week-long series with The Washington Monthly and the special, assets-themed issue of that magazine, MSNBC's "The Cycle" hosted Phil Longman on Tuesday afternoon. Phil was there to talk...
View ArticleReid Cramer on Wisconsin Public Radio
Americans need to build up their savings, but what can be done to make that task easier? Reid Cramer laid out a number of policy ideas in his piece, "The Assets Agenda," in the current, special issue...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accumulating Wealth is related to Youth’s Math Achievement
The link between household wealth and youth’s educational outcomes has been confirmed by numerous research studies, finding that youth tend to do better educationally when their households have more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Symposium Report: Linking Savings and Educational Outcomes
Earlier this week, the Assets and Education Initiative of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis released a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Children are Potential Future Investors who can and do Accumulate Savings
This is America Saves Week, which is an annual campaign that encourages nationwide discussion on savings and promotes good savings behavior. For those of us in the asset-building field, this is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Double Whammy to College Affordability: New Reports Show College Costs Up but...
Fresh off the presses are two reports highlighting the dismal state of college affordability: the first was released Wednesday by the State Higher Education Executive Officer's Association showing that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Podcast: How to Sidestep the Double-Whammy
As I mentioned in a blog post a couple of weeks ago, families are facing a double-whammy to college affordability: costs are up and savings are down. The good news? As Rachel Fishman with the Education...
View Article
