Asset Poverty
Take the Money and Run? A Case Study of Non-Qualified Withdrawals in Children's Savings Accounts
Carl Rist, Brigitte Gavin and Sean Luechtefeld, Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), May 2012
The Assets Report 2012: An Assessment of the Federal "Asset-Building" Budget
Reid Cramer, Rachel Black and Justin King, New America Foundation, April 2012
Overcoming Obstacles to College Attendance and Degree Completion: Toward a Pro-College Savings Agenda
Rachel Black and Mark Huelsman, New America Foundation, March 2012
2012 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard: A Portrait of Financial Insecurity and Policies to Rebuild Prosperity in America
Jennifer brooks and Kasey Wiedrich, Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED),
January 2012
Does Structural Inequality Begin with a Bank Account?
William Elliott III, New America Foundation, January 2012
Why Policymakers Should Care about Children’s Savings
William Elliott III, New America Foundation, January 2012
Beyond Barriers: Designing Attractive Savings Accounts for Lower-Income Consumers Pamela Chan, New America Foundation, November 2011
A Kindergarten to College (K2C): A First-in-the-Nation Initiative to Set All Kindergartners on the Path to College Leigh Phillips, San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment, and Anne Stuhldreher, New America Foundation, September 2011
Twenty-to-One: Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics
Rakesh Kochhar, Richard Fry and Paul Taylor, Pew Research Center, July 2011
Taking Asset Building and Earnings Incentives to Scale in HUD-Assisted Rental Housing
Jeffrey Lubell and Reid Cramer, Center for Housing Policy and the New America Foundation,
July 2011
The Assets Report 2011
Reid Cramer and Rachel Black, New America Foundation, June 2011
Discrediting America: The Urgent Need to Reform the Nation’s Credit Reporting Industry
Amy Traub and Shawn Fremsted, Dēmos, June 2011
Homeownership and Individual Development Accounts
Reid Cramer, New America Foundation, May 2011
Savings and Hardship Avoidance Among Households Headed by People with Disabilities: Implications for SSI
Gregory B. Mills and Sisi Zhang, Urban Institute, May 2011
Family Income Sources for Older Persons, 2009
Ke Bin Wu, AARP Public Policy Institute, May 2011
Promoting Defiant Apples: Exploring the Potential of an Economic Mobility Policy Agenda
Ray Boshara, New American Foundation, April 2011
Diverging Pathways: How Wealth Shapes Opportunity for Children
Insight Center for Community Economic Development, April 2011
A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security
Dean Baker and David Rosnick, Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2011
Can Savings Help Overcome Income Instability? Gregory Mills and Joe Amick, The Urban Institute, January 2011
Building Economic Security in America’s Cities: New Municipal Strategies for Asset Building and Financial Empowerment Corporation for Enterprise Development, January 2011
The Saver’s Bonus: A Proposal to Support Savings by Working Families at Tax Time Reid Cramer, The Asset Building Program, New America Foundation, December 2010
The Assets Agenda 2011: Policy Options to Promote Savings and Asset Development Reid Cramer, Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini, Lindsay Guge, Justin King, and Jamie Zimmerman The Asset Building Program, New America Foundation, September 2010
Upside Down: The $400 Billion Federal Asset-Building Budget Beadsie Woo,The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Ida Rademacher, CFED, and Jillien Meier,The Annie E. Casey Foundation Corporation for Enterprise Development and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, September 2010
Lessons from SEED, a National Demonstration of Child Development Accounts Center for Social Development, Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), Initiative on Financial Security at the Aspen Institute, New America Foundation and the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, September 2010
The Color of Debt: Credit Card Debt by Race and Ethnicity Jose Garcia, Demos, August 2010
Unbanked by Choice: A Look at How Low-Income Los Angeles Households Manage the Money They Earn The Pew Health Group, July 2010
Quick Credit: The Fringe Economy, the Great Recession, and the Welfare State David Stoesz, Virginia Commonwealth University and PolicyAmerica, New America Foundation, August 2010
Assets & Opportunity Special Report: The Financial Security of Households with Children Kasey Wiedrich, Stephen Crawford and Leigh Tivol, Corporation for Enterprise Development, May 2010
The Assets Report 2010 Reid Cramer, Mark Huelsman, Justin King, Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini and David Newville, New America Foundation, April 2010
Weathering the Storm: Have IDAs Helped Low-Income Homebuyers Avoid Foreclosure? (pdf)
Ida Rademacher and Kasey Wiedrich, Corporation for Enterprise Development and Signe-Mary McKernan and Megan Gallagher, the Urban Institute, April 2010
The State of Opportunity, 2009 The Opportunity Agenda, January 2010
A Penny Saved is Mobility Earned: Advancing Economic Mobility Through Savings Reid Cramer, Rourke O'Brien, Daniel Cooper and Maria Luengo-Prado, Economic Mobility Project and the New America Foundation, November 2009
Are Families Prepared for Financial Emergencies? Caroline Ratcliffe and Katie Vinopal, The Urban Institute, September 2009
Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas (pdf)
Danilo Pelletiere, Hye Jin Rho and Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research and National Low-Income Housing Coalition, August 2009
Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 2 Wilhelmina A. Leigh and Anna L. Wheatley, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, July 2009
The Assets Report 2009 Reid Cramer and Collin Siu, The New America Foundation, July 2009
Desperate Homeowners: Loan Mod Scammers Step in When Loan Servicers Refuse to Provide Relief (pdf)
Lauren K. Saunders, Andrew G. Pizor and Tara Twomey, National Consumer Law Center, July 2009
Asset Building in Low-income Communities of Color, Part 1Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Lauren M. Ross, Anna L. Wheatley and Danielle Huff, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, March 2009
Rental Assistance Asset AccountsReid Cramer and Jeffrey Lubell, New America Foundation, January 2009
Massachusetts Asset Development Commission Progress Report (pdf)
Massachusetts Asset Development Commission, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, December 2008
Access to Financial Services, Savings, and Assets Among the Poor (pdf)
Michael S. Barr and Rebecca M. Blank, National Poverty Center, November 2008
The Assets Agenda: Policy Options to Promote Savings and Asset Ownership by Low- and Moderate-Income AmericansAlejandra Lopez-Fernandini, Reid Cramer and Rourke O'Brien, New America Foundation, September 2008
Return on Investment: Getting more from Federal Asset-Building PoliciesCorporation for Enterprise Development, 2008
Portraits of the Assets and Liabilities of Low-Income FamiliesJ. Adam Carasso and Signe-Mary McKernan, The Urban Institute, May 2008
Return on Investment: Getting more from Federal Asset-Building PoliciesCorporation for Enterprise Development, 2008
Improving Opportunities and Incentives for Saving by Middle- and Low-Income HouseholdsWilliam G. Gale, Jonathan Gruber, Peter R. Orszag, April 2006
Impact of Asset Ownership on Social InclusionM. Lombe and M. Sherraden, 2005
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