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Assets and "The Other America"
Earlier this week, Demos held a great conference commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Michael Harrington’s The Other America. The conference coincided with the publication of The American...
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The $100,000 Question: Who are the SNAP Participants Robert Rector's Talking...
A recent article from Minnesota Public Radio described the consequences of curtailing the policy option that allows states to lift or eliminate their asset tests for most SNAP applicants (also known as...
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Quick Hit: Peter Edelman's Take on Persistent Poverty in America
Peter Edelman, professor of law at Georgetown University and author of the new book So Rich, So Poor, has an opinion piece in Sunday's New York Times looking at the persistence of poverty in the U.S....
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Spotlight on Bank Accounts for TANF Recipients
Having a bank account is foundational to building financial security. Unfortunately, the lower your income, the more likely you are to be financially insecure and the less likely you are to have a bank...
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Asset Building News Week, July 30 - August 3
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, August 6 - 10
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, August 13 - 17
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, August 27-31
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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What Do Recent Reforms Tell Us About Asset Limits?
Author(s): Rachel BlackAleta SpragueSeptember 25, 2012On September 20th, Rachel Black discussed the impact of recent reforms to state asset limit policies at the Assets Learning Conference. You can...
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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...
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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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Raising American Wages...by Raising American Wages
November 15, 2012 Ron Unz, The American Conservative Click here to download the whole paper as a PDF.With Americans still trapped in the fifth year of our Great Recession, and median personal income...
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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...
View ArticleThe Lottery Effect: Basing Policy on Outliers Is a Bad Idea
Here at the Asset Building Program we write regularly about the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of asset limits in public benefits programs. Recent research conducted by our own Aleta Sprague and...
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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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Asset Building News Week, December 17-21
Editor's note: We're off next week, so there won't be another Asset Building News Week until 2013! We wish our readers a very safe and happy holiday season and look forward to connecting with you in...
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Public Attitudes Toward the Next Social Contract
January 15, 2013 Bruce Stokes, Pew Research Center Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The recent deliberations in Washington about the fiscal cliff have triggered a national debate in the...
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Asset Building News Week, February 25-March 1
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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Warning: Solutions to non-Existent Problems Ahead
Or, so should have been labeled the justification to cut SNAP in the budget proposal from House Budget Chair Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) yesterday. Underlying this move was the need to increase integrity in...
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