Items tagged ‘Savings’
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Asset Building News Week, November 10 - November 14
Postal Banking The U.S. Postal Service’s Inspector General issued a request for proposals this week to solicit strategies from stakeholders on expa... -
Asset Building News Week, September 29-October 3
Inequality Evidence that inequality is growing in size and pace continues piling up. A chart that easily summarizes this new evidence received mass... -
Prize-Linked Savings Take Step Toward Broader Scale
Melissa GoldbergGuest Blog Post: This post is contributed by Melissa Goldberg, Innovation Strategist at Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund. You can learn more about D2D... -
Asset Building News Week, September 22-26
Poverty The new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, was interviewed in an article for Politico Pro on the ... -
Asset Building News Week, September 15-19
ALC 2014 Much of the asset building field gathered this week in Washington, D.C. at the Assets Learning Conference. The event, hosted by CFED, brou... -
What Can Canada Teach Us About Child Savings Accounts?
New Report
Guest Blog Post: This post is contributed by Willie Elliott, Director of the Assets and Education Initiative at the University of Kansas and Asset ... -
Asset Building News Week, September 8-12
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 ... -
New Report: Are Student Loans the Best We Can Do?
Guest Blog Post: This post is contributed by Willie Elliott, Director of the Assets and Education Initiative at the University of Kansas and Asset ... -
Asset Building News Week, September 1-5
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 ... -
Guest Post: How Much Would You Spend to Save $19 Million a Year?
Editor's note: This op-ed was originally published in the San Jose Mercury News and is co-authored by Paul Tepper, Executive Director of the Wester... -
Asset Building News Week, August 18–22
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 ... -
The Affordable Care Act and Asset Limits: What’s Left Undone
Aleta Sprague Julianna LordEditor’s Note: This blog post is the third and final installment in a series by Julianna Lord, Emerson National Hunger Fellow, looking at how the A... -
Asset Building News Week, August 4–8
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 ... -
New Report Highlights the Business Case for Youth Savings
New AmericaWashington, DC – The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) released a report today that examines the business considerations for financial s... -
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... -
NYC: Rich Hill
A Social Cinema Screening presented by the New America Asset Building Program
New AmericaRich Hill, Missouri, a once thriving coal town home to 1,400 people, is mined out. Like hundreds of other small towns across America, Rich Hill has... -
Investing in Children
Child Development Accounts as an Early Childhood Intervention
Nik Schuetz Terri FriedlineProperly designed and integrated Child Development Accounts (CDAs) can have lasting, positive effects on children's educational development and can... -
Recommended Standards for TANF Payment Card Contracts
Aleta Sprague Elizabeth Lower-BaschFamilies participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF/cash assistance) often must pay significant fees and surcharges... -
The Assets Perspective
The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy
I am very pleased to announce the publication of The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and it Impact on Social Policy. It’s a 13-chapt... - policy paper | March 19, 2014 | Asset Building
Rebalancing the Scales
The 2015 Assets Budget
The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty naturally prompts reflection on how much progress has been made and how to chart a path forward. While t... - policy paper | November 25, 2013 | Asset Building
Designing California's Secure Choice Savings Program
Policy Considerations for Building an Automatic and State-Based Savings Platform
Increasing access to retirement savings plans and creating incentives for low- and moderate-income workers to participate is a cornerstone of a pol... - policy paper | November 22, 2013 | Asset Building
Ohio’s Tax Time Coalition
Building Assets through Free Tax Preparation in Franklin County, 2013
Throughout the country, a network of over 4,300 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites helps over 1.2 million low-income taxpayers file their...