New research shows that having even a small nest egg of their own helps kids from modest backgrounds work harder to get to ahead.
July/August 2012
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
How to Save Our Kids From Poverty in Old Age
The case for American Stakeholder Accounts.
Posted inEconomy, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
Introduction: Jobs Are Not Enough
More than any election in living memory, the 2012 race is shaping up to be about one thing: jobs. Pundits are convinced that the rate of job growth between now and November is the magic number that will determine the outcome. The main policies the candidates are debating—whether to cut taxes or raise them on […]
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
The Hole in the Bucket
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.
Posted inEconomy, July/August 2012, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
The Slow-Motion Collapse of American Entrepreneurship
The experts tell us new business start-ups will save the American economy. So how come there are fewer and fewer of them?
Posted inJuly/August 2012
Too Important to Fail
Predatory lending still poses a systemic risk to the economy. Will Obama’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau succeed in taming it, or will the agency be strangled in its crib?
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
The Asset Agenda
Signature policy ideas for building the wealth of ordinary Americans.
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
Michael Sherradden’s Compounding Interest
Two decades ago an obscure academic revolutionized thinking about poverty. Now his insights might just save the middle class.
Posted inJuly/August 2012, Magazine, Politics
Where Are the Women Wonks?
Why the average D.C. think tank event features five guys in suits.
