The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on Next Billion Financial Innovatio...

Presentation by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Senior Research Fellow at Open Technology Institute, at PRISM Breakup in New York City, Saturday, October 5...

For the past five days the pirates had taken hostage Richard Phillips, the American captain of the Maersk Alabama container ship.President Barack O...

A new report from College Measures, an organization that publishes state-level college performance data (e.g., completion and employment rates), sh...

Twenty-one years ago, as she hurriedly pumped breast milk in a LaGuardia airport bathroom stall between flights,Debora Spar wryly reflected that sh...

A few weeks ago, YouthSave project partners from around the world convened in Washington, DC for our annual Learning & Exchange Conference (LEC). W...

Improving productivity in health care is, unquestionably, among the most important challenges facing policy makers and health care systems. Advance...

Since World War II, health care spending in the United States has grown rapidly – faster than in the rest of the developed world, and much faster t...

In the late 1940s, the United States adopted an industrial policy as sophisticated as any in world history. Rather than seek to build up power and ...

The “wealth effect” concept is remarkably simple: spending increases (decreases) as perceived wealth increases (decreases). When people perceive th...

“The most effective way to influence positive financial behavior is when you put tools in the hands of young people – giving them the chance to own...

A recent brief from MDRC reviews lessons learned from an assessment of College Match, an innovative advising program in Chicago designed to provide...

A recent report from the Community College Research Center summarizes research on nonacademic student supports such as enhanced advising where stud...

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center recently released a report examining the role of community colleges in helping students earn a b...

Access to the Internet is increasingly critical to success both inside and outside of the classroom. Students, parents, and teachers across the Uni...

A recentreport from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides analysis for the increased costs in the Pell Grant program since the 2006-07 aca...

It has been five years since the failure of Lehman Brothers and the beginning of the global financial crisis. Over this time, dozens of books have ...

In July, the public learned that Goldman Sachs and several other large banks have morphed into giant merchants of physical goods, routinely shippin...

Leading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho...

By synthesizing the current opportunities and obstacles to using mobile-based tools to advance youth financial access and by assessing current opin...

Leading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho...

The issue of low wages has moved to the center of American public debate recently, thanks to protests against the low pay of fast food workers, the...