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Asset Building News Week, June 4-June 8
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Surveying Household Wealth: Part 2 - Retirement Savings
This blog post is part two in a series analyzing the recently released Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve. The SCF is a triennial survey of American families that offers insights into...
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Event: Jobs are Not Enough - July 11
Wednesday July 11th, the Asset Building Program will be hosting an event focused on the special July/August issue of the Washington Monthly. "The Future of Success" takes a look at current economic...
View ArticleThe Hole in the Bucket
July 11, 2012 Americans obsessed over personal finance during the last forty years as never before. So how come so many of us wound up broke? Here's the little-known story. Phillip LongmanJuly 11,...
View ArticleHow to Save Our Kids From Poverty in Old Age
July 11, 2012 The case for American Stakeholder Accounts. Phillip LongmanJuly 11, 2012The federal government spends more than $500 billion a year on policies designed to help individuals acquire or...
View ArticleThe Asset Agenda
July 11, 2012 Signature policy ideas for building the wealth of ordinary Americans. Reid CramerJuly 11, 2012Over the course of the last two decades, a community of academics, policy wonks, and...
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Event Summary: Jobs are Not Enough
The Asset Building Program hosted an event Wednesday, July 11 to release the July/August issue of the Washington Monthly. The issue focuses on the importance and applicability of the asset building...
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"Bringing the Future Nearer": Building the Wealth of Low & Middle Income...
Yesterday, Phil Longman and Dana Goldstein spoke with Minnesota Public Radio about their recent contributions to the July/August issue of the Washington Monthly. The issue, The Future of Success,...
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Health and Wealth in Older Age
Last week on Washington Post's Wonkblog, Suzy Khimm reviewed a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that examines the asset holdings of elderly households near the end of...
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Asset Building News Week, September 10-14
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ALC 2012: The Impact of the Great Recession on Low-Income Communities and...
Though the Assets Learning Conference is now more than a week past, one session that has stuck with me dealt with The Great Recession and its Impact on Wealth in Low-Income Communities and Communities...
View ArticleIs Unlimited Growth a Thing of the Past?
by Jay Pelosky Very powerful piece by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times. Day to day market fluctuations are one thing, but the search for growth may well be the next big thing in financial markets –...
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Asset Building News Week, October 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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Asset Building News Week, November 5-9
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Debt, Deficits, and Demographics
Why We Can Afford the Social Contract November 19, 2012 Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.For much of the last three decades, policy...
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Tax Reform That Works: Building a Solid Fiscal Foundation with a VAT
November 29, 2012 Bruce Bartlett, Author, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform -- Why We Need It and What It Will Take Click here to download the full paper as a PDF. .field-field-image { margin: 0...
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No Discount: Comparing the Public Option to the Coupon Welfare State
December 3, 2012 Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The fundamental ideological conflict surrounding the Welfare State in the U.S. is no longer over the...
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Competing Visions of the Past: Learning from History for the Future of...
December 6, 2012 Steven Attewell, University of California-Santa Barbara Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.In his 2012 nomination acceptance speech in Charlotte, President Obama argued...
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Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy
December 10, 2012 Steven M. Teles, Johns Hopkins University Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The last thirty years of American history have witnessed, at least rhetorically, a battle over...
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Social Contract Budgeting: Prescriptions from Economics and History
December 17, 2012 Peter Lindert, University of California - Davis Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.If there is to be any durable hope for a social contract that transcends left-right...
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