The Sidebar: The U.S. Budget and Community WiFi
The U.S. Budget and Community WiFi are topics for discussion this week, as host Pamela Chan is joined by Preston Rhea and Jason Peuquet.
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s Risky Ideas
April 5, 2012 Does the chairman of the House Budget Committee know anything about how a military budget gets made? Fred KaplanApril 5, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/66218 Few things shock...
View ArticleIntroducing The Assets Report 2012 and Infographic!
Every year, the Asset Building Program analyzes the President's budget request to see how much goes to support asset building policies. More importantly, we keep tabs on how this money is spent because...
View ArticleThe Relationship Among Homeownership, the Federal Budget, and the Racial...
The Asset Building Program’s analysis of the President’s FY 2013 budget reveals two key trends about the accessibility of homeownership and its relationship to overall wealth over the past few years....
View ArticleThe Saver’s Bonus and Removal of Asset Tests: Making Federal Spending Work...
In many ways, the asset poverty line is a better and more complete indicator of how a particular family is faring financially than the traditional poverty measurement. Asset poverty acknowledges that...
View ArticleA Federal Budget that Puts Higher Education within Reach: the ASPIRE Act and...
Going to college and getting an education has long been regarded as a reliable path out of poverty. And for good reason. Research by the Pew Economic Mobility Project shows that children in the bottom...
View ArticleUS Must Address Its Balance Sheet
April 17, 2012Marc GoldweinJason PeuquetApril 17, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/66505 It is fitting, and perhaps ironic, that today is both Tax Day and Financial Literacy Day. Taxes and finances...
View ArticleCutting SNAP is the Wrong Way to Fund Defense
Monday, the House Republicans announced new domestic budget cuts to SNAP/Food Stamps, which would include lowering benefit levels and reinstating the federal asset test of $2000 for most families. The...
View ArticleBetween a Mountain of Debt and a Fiscal Cliff: Finding a Smart Path Forward
March 29, 2012At the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, many major fiscal events are set to occur all at once. They include the expiration of the 2001/03/10 tax cuts, the winding down of certain...
View ArticleMake Candidates Debate the Debt
April 27, 2012Maya MacGuineasApril 27, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/66908 It's not news that the national debt presents a daunting challenge. The public debt is growing faster than the economy,...
View ArticleWhat’s really driving the proposed SNAP cuts?
Yesterday, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing about the Farm Bill that focused on some of the proposed reforms to SNAP. Notably, none of the panelists or representatives in attendance...
View ArticleWhy Jerry Brown’s Bid to Fix California’s Budget Isn’t Working
May 16, 2012 California’s fiscal crisis is mushrooming, and Governor Moonbeam seems powerless to stop it. Joe Mathews on Brown’s call for ‘stoicism,’ and why it’s not working. Joe MathewsMay 16,...
View ArticlePreserving Access to Justice: Legal Services and the Safety Net
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which provides funding to legal services organizations throughout the country, is an essential feature of the safety net—though rarely described as such. LSC...
View ArticleNYC's Health Bucks: Incentive-Based Policies for the Win!
Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he was expanding the city’s “Health Bucks” program, which gives shoppers using SNAP at farmers markets an additional $2.00 for every...
View ArticleRoom For Debate: "Is the Deficit Urgent, or a Distraction?"
August 30, 2012 A Problem Too Big for Small Solutions. Maya MacGuineasAugust 30, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/70834 The federal debt is the nation’s most pressing economic problem because our...
View ArticleHighway Robbery
August 22, 2012 Why do Mitt Romney and Barack Obama want to hand over so much of your money to men with guns? Rosa BrooksAugust 22, 2012URL: http://newamerica.net/node/70920 In August 2003, some...
View ArticleDebt, 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...
View ArticleSocial 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...
View ArticleThe Next Social Contract: An American Agenda for Reform
June 10, 2013Michael LindClick here to download the essay as a PDF.The American social contract is in crisis. Even before the Great Recession exposed its inadequacy, it was clear that the existing...
View ArticleAsset Building News Week, March 3-7
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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