Savings

Ray Boshara prepared this presentation for the Southern Regional Asset-Building Coalition Conference, "Closing the Wealth Gap: Promoting Change by Working Together," held October 21 and 22nd, 2010 in New Orleans. 

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Ray Boshara and Phil Longman prepared this presentation for a discussion of their book, "The Next Progressive Era," for a book talk at Washington University in St. Louis on January 27, 2010.

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The National Endowment for Financial Education commissioned experts to write four white papers for their "Quarter Century Project: 25 Years of Research in Financial Education." Ray Boshara of the New America Foundation was a member of the team tasked to write on the theme of "Consumer Trends and New Opportunities:  What are the emerging trends, new

Tonight’s State of the Union speech will likely elevate the concepts of investment and competiveness as a way to highlight the administration’s approach to economic recovery. I’ll be listening to see if he places a spotlight on helping families increase their savings as a means of increasing their economic security over the long term. And although details may be sketchy, I do expect him to talk about dealing with the deficit over the long term.

On Wednesday, February 2, the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation along with the Doorways to Dreams Fund (D2D), the Congressional Savings and Ownership Caucus and the Savings Bond Working Group hosted this briefing at the Cannon House Office Building. The event connected legislators with the information and tools necessary to educate constituents on how to take advantage of the new opportunity to buy savings bonds with tax refunds.

Poverty is growing and being populated by people who once occupied the middle-class, a phenomenon the Washington Post is calling "the Great Slide," a legacy of the Great Recession induced by "job losses, declining home values and decimated retirement savings." For many of the nouveau-poor, the impact at the bottom of the slide is cushioned by a set of safety net programs that are intended to provide families with the re

Treasury announced the launch of its pilot program to open new accounts for the underbanked in a press release yesterday. The pilot will send out offers in the mail to 600,000 low-income households which will allow them to receive their tax refunds on a Visa-branded debit card that simultaneously opens an account with direct deposit, debit card and electronic payment features.

Recently, the initial findings from the FinScope Ghana study were released, led by Finmark Trust South Africa and conducted by Synovate, the study was commissioned by Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and funded by the World Bank and DFID (UK Department for International Development).

This post was originally published on www.youthsave.org

By Anne-Françoise Lefèvre, World Savings Banks Institute

In Tuesday, the folks that brought you the Economic Security Index introduced the results of new survey data reflecting people's perceptions and experiences of financial insecurity over an 18-month period between March 2008 and September 2009.