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...
View ArticleAsset 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...
View ArticleChildren's Savings Accounts
Research, Practice, and Implications for Policy Design June 18, 2014Reid CramerRachel BlackJustin KingURL:...
View ArticleChildren's Savings: How Far We've Come
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...
View ArticleAsset 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...
View ArticleInvesting 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleAsset 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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