In The News
- in the news | February 02, 2015 | Asset Building
What Can We Learn from Obama’s Failure to Curb Sec. 529 College Savings Accounts?
As Justin King has noted, some states including Maine, Rhode Island and Nevada are trying to encourage college attendance by setting up accounts fo... - in the news | January 30, 2015 | Asset Building
How to expand middle-class college savings
New AmericaPioneering work by Ray Boshara of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and the New America Foundation has led to numerous innovations by states and nonpro... - in the news | December 19, 2014 | Asset Building
What you should know about the ABLE Act
For many Americans living with disabilities, it has been a good week: now that the Senate passed the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act ... - in the news | November 04, 2014 | Asset Building
Tie the 401(k) Limit to the Minimum Wage
The limit is actually a part of our wealth-inequality problem. The government goes to great lengths to help the very wealthy save more money while ... - in the news | November 03, 2014 | Asset Building
Ideas to Improve Financial Lives, From the Treasurer’s Office
Reid Cramer, director of the asset-building program at the New America Foundation, said these programs “wouldn’t have gotten done without somebody ... -
TN taxpayers paying thousands for EBT card ATM fees | WSMV
New AmericaAleta Sprague: The fees and the surcharges that we are talking about are a real problem that require a real solution... -
New Report Highlights the Business Case to Make Youth Savings Work
New AmericaWashington, DC – The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) released a report today that examines the business considerations for financial s... -
Do You Have Emergency Savings to Get You Through a Crisis? | National Journal
Half of Americans have no retirement assets, and those who do often neglect their rainy-day fund in favor of longer-term goals. Copyright 2014, Nat... -
Why Do Chinese Students Know More About Money Than Americans Do? | The Atlantic
New AmericaReid Cramer: There’s a lot we don’t know about what works in financial education...We don’t know how information translates to knowledge, and there...