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- Mr. President, Let's Share The Wealth
- New Perspectives On Poverty
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- New Program To Help Arkansas Families Save For College
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- Oh, Baby: $500 To All Newborns? State Bill Is Designed To Encourage Habit Of Lifelong Saving.
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- Promoting Personal Savings On A National Level
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- Remarks by assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez at the Rainbow Push Coalition Annual Wall Street Conference
- Report On Mahoning Valley Financial Assets And Opportunities
- SEED Program Develops Financial Skills For Children
- Sam's Club asks small businesses which nonprofits to help
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- San Francisco Introduces 'Kindergarten to College' Savings Program
- Save, Baby, Save
- SaveTogether uses donors’ dollars to boost saving
- Saving For Life, Not Just Retirement
- Saving Incentives For All Income Levels
- Saving Made Easy; Small Amounts Can Grow Into Large Sums
- Saving People From Poverty: A United Way Program Helps The Poor Buy Homes Or Start Businesses
- Saving as a Way out of Poverty
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- Schumer: 'Win-Win Proposal Will Help Foster A Generation Of Responsible Savers'
- Sen. Pryor Visits Local Bank, KIPP School
- Senator Clinton Introduces Legislation To Provide Support For Youth ‘Aging Out’ Of Foster Care
- Senator Santorum Participates In Savings And Ownership Caucus Panel On KIDS Accounts
- Sens. Clinton And Smith Introduce ‘The New Saver’s Act’
- Sensible steps to job creation
- Several groups who offer IDAs also report low foreclosure rates among participants. Of the 100 people who purchased homes with matched savings programs through Earn, a nonprofit in San Francisco that focuses on helping low income families save, Earn says
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- Silver Lining Of Subprime Slips Away In Calif. Suburb
- Sowing SEEDS Of Sense
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- Special savings accounts can help break cycle of poverty
- State Begins Investigation Into Savings Accounts For All Illinois Children
- State Gets Mixed Grades
- State Gets Weak Grade For Economic Development Potential
- State Help Is Scarce For Small Businesses - Part 1
- State Needs 'New Approach' To Incentives, Study Says
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- State aims to commercialize U research
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- Steelman Unveils New College Fund Program
- Stimulus funds for 'plain folks'
- Study Prescribes Actions To Jump-start Valley Economy
- Study: 'F' for AK
- Subsidies To Spur College Savings Discussed
- Subsidized Accounts Get Another Look In D.C.
- Supercharging Savings Starts At An Early Age
- Support for beginning farmers and ranchers
- Survey Shows Parents Fall Short In Savings And Financial Know-How To Pay For Kids' College
- Survey: Few Positives: State Scores Poorly On Report Card
- Taking Savings Into Account
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- The Banks Want Your Kids: From Mutual Funds To Debit Cards, New Products Target Young Savers; Financing A Pop Machine At Age 10
- The Case For Early Investment In Our Kids
- The Economic Elephant At The GOP Debate
- The Harlem Children's Zone
- The Harlem Project
- The Homebuyers Toolkit: Let’s Talk Money
- The Idea Factory
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- The Next Generation Of Asset Building: Juma Ventures
- The Next Social Contract
- The Real Deal; Class On Small Business Aims To Spur Growth In East Market Street Corridor
- Think Tanks Offer Advice To Members Of OK College Savings Plan Task Force
- Third Of Households In Poverty
- This 'C' isn't for California. Grade the 'California Dream' here!
- Thumb down: Florida scores poorly in health care, housing costs
- Time To Pare Old Money Practices; Standard Operating Procedures Just Won't Cut It In North Carolina
- Time To Sow Seeds, Not To Space Out
- Time to put more North Carolinians on prosperity grid
- Top Economic Honors Flow East
- Treasurer Wants Newborns to Have Savings Accounts
- Tsongas amendment eases access to credit score
- U.S. Senate Hopefuls Outline Platforms In Nashville Forum
- UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan Institute Study Shows Federal Incentive Programs Promote Savings Among Working Poor Families
- US East Coast Business Climate Beats Sunbelt-study
- United Way offers program for low-income families
- Valley Must Learn To Build Wealth, Study Urges
- Waiting To Be Wooed
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- Wean Foundation Study Outlines Obstacles, Opportunities For Mahoning Valley
- West Virginia Scores a 'C' On Poverty and Opportunity
- What's in Obama's middle-class plan for you?
- Who Says Money Doesn't Grow On Trees? Save One Dollar, Get Another One (or Two) Free!
- With Colleges' Help, Unemployed Workers Follow A New Dictum: Employ Thyself
- Working To Help The Jobless
- Would You Help A Stranger Save Money?
- YEA Believes "Entrepreneurship is the Birthright of American Youth"
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- Young Feminist—and Potential Politician—Reflects On Nancy Pelosi
- Youth Financial Empowerment In NYC
- Child Savings Accounts Coverage
- Baby's First Boondoggle
- $500 Savings Account for Every Child – Legal or Not – Has the World Gone Mad?
- $500 just for being born
- 'Bank at School' teaches kids to save:
- 'Kiddie Tax' Changes Make 529 Plans Better
- "Baby Bonds" Is A Big Idea
- 529 Accounts Go to the Head of the Class
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- A Plan She Can Bank On; Savings program adds up for specially selected pupils
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- ASPIRE Act Introduced in the Senate
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- Better Baby Bonds
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- Bonds for Babies Democrats discover the Ownership Society
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- Bush, Clinton Both Flirted With 'Baby Bonds' Concept
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- Cash on delivery: The movement to give every American a trust fund at birth
- Cherokee Nation Youth Testing Universal Savings Program
- Child Trust Funds scrapped for all
- Child trust funds start to grow up
- City giving children a little seed money
- Clinton: $5,000 For Every U.S. Baby
- College savings accounts talked up Treasurer aspirant sketches initiatives
- Coming Soon: $500 for Every Newborn?
- Complaints mounting over college savings accounts
- Crapo urges Congress to extend College Savings Plan
- Day recognizes to teach children about saving
- EARN Partners with City of San Francisco on Kindergarten to College Program
- EARN and the City of San Francisco’s Kindergarten to College Program Receives Full Budgetary Funding
- Early Start On Savings Urged
- Federal Tax Benefits Become Permanent for 529 Plans Today; Families in Ohio's CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan to Benefit
- GOP sponsor backs away from kid gift bill
- Giuliani blasts Clinton's 'baby bond' idea
- Government Baby Bonds Savings Scheme Unpopular
- Government Provides 2.5m Children with Savings Accounts
- Griffin: Budget deal smells fishy
- Halter proposes matching grants for college savings
- Help for families
- Helping Hand: State-Sponsored College Savings Program: Plan Targets Low-income Families
- Hitting The Sweet Spot
- House creates task force to study college savings program
- Idea Of 'Baby Bonds' Isn't Necessarily Out Of Left Field
- Illinois wants every child to have savings account
- In Oklahoma and Maine, Babies Get Funds for College Savings Plans
- In a 529 Savings Plan, the Number to Watch May Be 2010
- Introducing a Savings Account Beyond the Piggy Bank; Ages 8-10: Bank on It
- Invest $500 In Every N.Y. Newborn
- Investing In Human Futures
- James Shapiro '10: Fund Baby Bonds, cut Social Security
- KIDS Accounts benefit the rich, not children
- Kennedy Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Invest in Children
- Kids' savings boost
- Lawmakers want to fatten your piggy bank: Automatic 401(k) sign-up, kids' savings accounts among ideas
- Lifetime Savings Accounts plan could liberate future generations
- Little savers add up to big benefits
- Lou Dobbs – Child Savings Account
- Maine Program Brightens College Prospects - At Birth
- Maine’s Babies to Get a Jump on College Tab
- Mayor Plans To Boost Middle Class; Strategy Would Get Feds Involved, Provide Savings For Kids’ Education
- McDonough removed from Poverty Watch List
- Money Should be Kid Stuff
- More than 1,000 Okla. babies receive $1,000 for college savings Okla. State Treasurer and Washington University in St. Louis partner through new study on children's savings accounts
- Murphy Oil Thrives Despite Rural Roots
- National Conference Tackles College Savings and Financial Education for Children and Youth
- New America Foundation Commends San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Baby Savings Bond Proposal
- New Incentive To Save For College
- New Programs Launch Savings Plans For Kids
- New boost for college-savings plans
- Newsom Signs Balanced Budget for 2010-2011
- Newsom plans college 'savings bond'
- Now that 529 college plan tax breaks are permanent, it's time to save
- Oh, Baby: $500 To All Newborns? State Bill Is Designed To Encourage Habit Of Lifelong Saving.
- On Taxpayer-Funded Savings Accounts—Pro Sowing savings for our kids' future
- POLITICS: Most parents are failing to use vouchers for children, says report
- Pan American Bank Aims to Improve Financial Literacy for Latino Youth
- Planting the seeds
- Program Helps Students Invest In Future
- Program banks on the future; Learn to Earn teaches children the value of saving money
- Promoting Personal Savings On A National Level
- Proposed 'Child Accounts' to Encourage Savings and Boost Mississippi's Economy
- Reid Cramer: Don’t throw Baby Bonds out with bath
- Rep Shaw Introduces 401Kids Family Savings Act
- Republicans criticize Hillary Clinton's 'baby bonds' plan
- Restrictions on 529s make them a poor college investment
- San Francisco Approves Funding for Kindergarten-to-College Initiative
- San Francisco Introduces 'Kindergarten to College' Savings Program
- San Francisco mayor wants to create college savings accounts for city's kindergartners
- San Francisco's Promising Initiative
- Saving For College Starts Now With College Costs Rising, Saving Starts At Birth
- Saving Made Easy; Small Amounts Can Grow Into Large Sums
- Savings account in child's name can provide lifelong benefits
- Savings study will contribute to knowledge
- Schumer Reverses Course on Tax
- Schumer pushes savings for newborns
- Senator Santorum Participates In Savings And Ownership Caucus Panel On KIDS Accounts
- Should Every Baby Have a Bank Account?
- Sowing SEEDS of sense
- Start kids saving early
- State Begins Investigation Into Savings Accounts For All Illinois Children
- Steelman Unveils New College Fund Program
- Students learn about saving, banking
- Supercharging savings starts at an early age
- The Doable Dozen; Whether or not the Democrats have a Big Idea, they -- and some Republicans, too! -- have a slew of very good small ones. Here's an unscientific list of 12 that don't ask for the moon but deserve to see the light of day.
- The Economic Elephant At The GOP Debate
- They promise, you pay
- Think Tanks Offer Advice To Members Of OK College Savings Plan Task Force
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- WU’s Michael Sherraden named to TIME Magazine’s TIME 100
- We must not sacrifice the child trust fund
- We're looking for ways to improve savings rate
- Worried if a 529 Savings Plan will Affect Future College Aid? Don’t Be
- Young Feminist—and Potential Politician—Reflects On Nancy Pelosi
- Youngster gets early lesson in value of saving
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- A New Idea is Taking Root In Pasadena
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- WU’s Michael Sherraden named to TIME Magazine’s TIME 100
- Wells Fargo gives grant funds to Arcata nonprofit
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- Commentary: Save More For Yourself And America
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- EARN Partners with City of San Francisco on Kindergarten to College Program
- Entire School Gets Savings Accounts
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- CFED Appoints Andrea Levere As New President
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- CFED Awarded A $380,000 Grant From W.K. Kellogg Foundation To Enhance Futures For Vulnerable Children
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- CFED Teams With Capital One On The 2008 Assets Learning Conference
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- CFED mourns the loss of Chief Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010)
- CFED's I'M HOME Celebrates Manufactured Housing Week
- CFED’s I’M HOME Celebrates Homeownership Month
- CFED’s I’M HOME Salutes Homeownership Month
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- Entrepreneurship Shows Potential For Native Economies Beyond Gaming: New Report Tracks Momentum Toward Indian Small Business Ventures
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- Fannie Mae Is Latest Gold Level Sponsor Of 2008 Assets Learning Conference
- Federal Reserve Forums Advance Asset-Building Strategies For Low-Income Americans
- Ford Foundation Receives CFED's Innovation Award
- Groundbreaking Initiative Encourages Children’s Savings
- Hawaii Legislature Takes Coordinated Steps To Reduce Poverty
- House Bill Introduced To Create 900,000 Matched Accounts To Spur Low-Income Savings
- House GOP Backs Savings For Working Families Act
- House-passed Pension Bill Vastly Favors Wealthy Households
- Innovation@cfed To Find Next Generation Of Poverty-Alleviation Strategies
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- Matched-Savings Initiative For Low-Income Americans Receive "Critical Impact" Award
- Merrill Lynch Community Development Company Sponsors CFED 2008 Assets Learning Conference
- More Economic Trouble On The Way
- NC Commerce Dept. Uses Questionable Numbers To Develop Business Incentive Offers
- National Fund To Benefit Low-Income Entrepreneurs With $584,000 In Awards To State Financial Intermediaries
- National Initiative To Increase Capital For Low-income Entrepreneurs: The Corporation For Enterprise Development Awards Grants To Community Development Financial Institutions To Address The Needs Of Low-wealth Individuals.
- National Personal Savings Rate Remains Low
- National Survey Shows Strong Support For Children's Savings Accounts
- Nearly One-in-Five American Households Owes More Than It Owns
- NeighborWorks® America Grant Helps CFED Present Critical New Data On Wealth And Homeownership
- NeighborWorks® America Grant Helps CFED Present Critical New Data On Wealth And Homeownership
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- New Capitalist’s Bradley Joins innovation@cfed as Strategic Advisor
- New Investment Tool Shows Great Promise For Working Poor Families: Individual Development Accounts Modeled On Popular Individual Retirement Accounts
- New Program Seeks To Ensure That All American Children Have Nest Eggs: Groundbreaking National Test Will Evaluate The Impact Of Holding Assets On Children And Families
- New Research Shows that Low-Income Homebuyers Using Matched Savings Accounts Are Better Able to Avoid Foreclosure and Subprime Loans
- North Carolina Business Incentive Program Losing Money: New Report Says That Lee Act Does Not Address State's Fiscal And Job Woes
- President Bush Signs Bill That Promotes Savings For Low - Income Workers
- Report Card Reveals Depth Of Asset Poverty Nationwide: New Study Finds Wealth Accumulation And Distribution Varies Greatly By Race, Gender, And Geography
- SME Small Grants Program Winners Announced
- Sale Of Manufactured Housing Community Demonstrates The Importance Of Resident Ownership
- Santorum-Corzine Initiative Will Encourage Children’s Savings And Economic Opportunity: Legislation Builds On National Experiment With “SEED” Accounts.
- Santorum/Lieberman Bill Creates 900,000 Matched Accounts To Spur Low-Income Savings: Legislation Can Make Successful Financial Program Mainstream, Says CFED
- Senate Committee Votes To Reform Asset Limits For Food Stamps
- South Dakota Native Communities Focus Of Groundbreaking Study
- Stanford’s Deiglmeier, Utah State’s Torrens Join innovation@cfed as Strategic Advisors
- The Savings Moment: Is Savings More Important than Credit?
- There's Money Waiting For North Carolina's Dislocated Workers
- Wal-Mart Grants To CFED And D2D Fund Will Expand Economic Opportunity
- Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Provides Assets Learning Conference Scholarships To Community-Based Organizations
- Working Families Not Recovering With Overall Economy: New Study Highlights Gap Between Economic Indicators And Families' Realities
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