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Asset Building News Week, February 25-March 1
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 ArticleGuest Post: Illinois Automatic IRA Bill (98th General Assembly)
Editor's note: This blog post was authored by Karen Harris, Director of Asset Opportunities at the Shriver Center. For many retired Americans, the potential for financial insecurity is great. Although...
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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...
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Warning: Solutions to non-Existent Problems Ahead
Or, so should have been labeled the justification to cut SNAP in the budget proposal from House Budget Chair Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) yesterday. Underlying this move was the need to increase integrity in...
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The New Suburban Homeless
A new article by Monica Potts in the most recent issue of The American Prospect, The Weeklies, explores an impact of the Great Recession that has thus far received sparse attention: the rise of...
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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...
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Expanded Social Security
A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans April 3, 2013Michael LindJoshua FreedmanSteven Hill Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.Executive...
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Event Summary: The New Suburban Homeless
The Asset Building Program hosted an event last week to examine the rise of suburban homelessness and the broader impact of the Great Recession on homeownership and the American middle class. We...
View ArticleTwo Ideas on How to Improve Retirement Security for All Americans
Editor's note: This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square. In Washington, President Obama is expected to present his plans for changes in entitlements, including Social Security....
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Asset Building News Week, April 15-19
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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The Rise of the Dynamic Welfare State
Earlier this month, President Obama released his budget for the next fiscal year. The budget can be thought of as a large set of “asks” for Congress to consider, including funding levels for existing...
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Asset Building News Week, April 22-26
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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Can Mobile-Enabled Savings Products Bridge the Youth Financial Services Gap?
Editor's note: This post was authored by Julia Arnold, a Research Fellow with the Global Assets Project, and originally appeared on the Center for Financial Inclusion's blog. Many of the challenges to...
View ArticleMedicaid Is Asset Building?
A new study came out this week evaluating the impact Medicaid coverage has on participants' health, financial lives, and general well-being. Sarah Kliff describes the study design:The research uses...
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Asset Building News Week, April 29-May 3
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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Opportunities for Young Anti-Poverty Activists to Participate in Upcoming...
Our friends at RESULTS Educational Fund are gearing up for their 2013 International Conference to be held in D.C. this year July 20-23. RESULTS works to train a new generation of advocates to address...
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Upcoming Event: "The Hell of American Day Care"
The Asset Building Program is hosting an event Monday to feature Jonathan Cohn’s recent article for The New Republic "The Hell of American Day Care." A great panel will help us piece together the...
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Asset Building News Week, May 6-10
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 ArticlePutting the Kibosh on Using Credit Checks in Hiring Decisions
The use of credit checks to inform hiring decisions has been getting some much deserved scrutiny recently. Over the weekend, Charles Ellison for the Philadelphia Tribune and Gary Rivlin for the New...
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The Nightmare of Daycare
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on New America's In The Tank blog. The average childcare worker in the U.S. earns less than a janitor. Sure, some daycare centers pay well, but the average...
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