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Fifty Years Since the War on Poverty, We Need an Assets Perspective
Today marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” The big, predictable question seems to be: so, did we win?But are we even...
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An Assets Perspective to the War on Poverty: Access to Higher Education
Over the past week, we’ve been taking a look at what we’ve learned since the War on Poverty began about why assets matter – and why they should be a key piece of our anti-poverty approach going...
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Asset Building News Week, February 10-14
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...
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Asset Building News Week, February 17-21
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...
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Roth Accounts for Youth Savings
While the notion of universal children’s savings continues to receive serious consideration at the highest levels of federal lawmaking, there is no formal plan on the table to promote CSAs and no...
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Asset Building News Week, March 3-7
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...
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New Report: It Still Takes Money to Make Money
On Tuesday, our colleagues at the Assets and Education Initiative at the University of Kansas released a new report called Harnessing Assets to Build an Economic Mobility Agenda. The key finding? It...
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Rebalancing the Scales
The 2015 Assets Budget March 19, 2014Rachel Black The assets budget is deeply unbalanced. The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty naturally prompts reflection on how much progress has been made and...
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Just Published—The Assets Perspective
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-chapter edited volume which I worked on with Trina Shanks...
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Guest Post: Six Tax Reforms to Increase Economic Security for All
Editor's note: this blog post was authored by Heather McCulloch, Manager of the Tax Policy Project of the Asset Funders Network. It originally appeared on the ACCESS to Financial Security site and is...
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Asset Building News Week, April 21-25
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 Article85,000 Low-income Youth Open Savings Accounts through YouthSave
The YouthSave project announced new results from a five-year program designed to increase saving and asset building among youth in developing countries. According to a press release published by New...
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Bringing College Savings Within Reach?
Saving is hard. We know that all too well. It's one of the reasons that only about 3 percent of American families use tax-advantaged savings accounts (529s and Coverdells) to save for college. Saving...
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Asset Building News Week, June 9-13
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...
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Children's Savings Accounts
Research, Practice, and Implications for Policy Design June 18, 2014Reid CramerRachel BlackJustin KingURL:...
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Children's Savings Accounts have received a great deal of attention in 2014. The incoming Chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), made a splash when he highlighted CSAs as one of...
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Asset Building News Week, June 16-20
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...
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Investing in Children
Child Development Accounts as an Early Childhood Intervention June 24, 2014Terri Friedline Nik Schuetz, University of Kansas' School of Social Welfare Click here to read the full paper. Properly...
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New Report: Child Development Accounts as an Early Childhood Intervention
Properly designed Child Development Accounts (CDAs) can have lasting, positive effects on children's educational development and can improve their long-term economic outcomes. That's the argument of a...
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Asset Building News Week, July 21-25
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...
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