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Upcoming Event: Saving Financial Aid
The Asset Building Program is looking forward to hosting an event this coming Monday morning in collaboration with the Assets and Education Initiative (AEDI) at the University of Kansas. Join us on...
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Event Summary: Saving Financial Aid
Today, the Asset Building Program co-hosted an event with the Assets and Education Initiative (AEDI) at the University of Kansas. The event focused on new research on the issue of children's savings...
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Playing the Long-Game on College Financing
Sometimes when I need to motivate myself to do something, cheesy as it may be, I think about how it will benefit "future me.""Future me" will enjoy wearing the clean clothes that "present me" washed....
View ArticleEvent Series at the University of Kansas on Poverty, Assets, and the American...
The University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, the Assets and Education Initiative (AEDI), and the KU Social Work Administration and Advocacy Practice are convening a series of events over the next...
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Guest Post: TrustEgg: Simple Saving for a Brighter Future
Editor’s note:This post was authored by Jeffrey Brice and Eric Genrich of TrustEgg. Jeff is the Founder/CEO of TrustEgg and a former accountant working in Banking and Trust. He is an expert in...
View ArticleGuest Post: Canada’s Program to Encourage Early Savings for Post-Secondary...
Editor’s note: This guest blog post was authored by David Swol, Director General of the Canada Education Savings Program (CESP).Since 1998, the Government of Canada has been providing incentives to...
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Asset Building News Week, October 7- 11
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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Young Adults Experienced Financial Side Effects from the Great Recession
Mounting debt, diminishing net worth, insufficient savings, increasing foreclosures, rising unemployment—all painful financial side effects of what has been dubbed the worst economic recession in...
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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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