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Bringing the Community Back into Community Development Research & Policy
Last week, I attended the Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference on “The Changing Landscape of Community Development” where researchers from the Fed and Universities around the country...
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Medicaid Is Still Not Worse Than Being Uninsured
Forbes blogger Avik Roy commented during yesterday’s IPAB hearing that “studies show that health outcomes for many Medicaid patients are worse than those who have no insurance at all.” That assertion...
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A Vision for Economic Renewal
An American Jobs Agenda July 26, 2011 Task Force on Job Creation The economic environment in America today is more dire than most of us have ever known. We are in the midst of an unemployment...
View ArticleLearning Agenda Outlines Innovative YouthSave Research Plans
By Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. LouisOriginally posted on www.youthsave.orgIn 1950 there were just under half a billion young people from ages 15 to 24 in the world; by...
View ArticleSavings and Economic Empowerment Program Underway for Orphaned Youth in Uganda
Fred Ssewamala, Associate Professor at Columbia University, YouthSave member, and Global Assets Project Senior Fellow, has received a $3.34M grant for a family-based economic empowerment program for...
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Call for Papers: Credit Scoring and Reporting Research Symposium in Boston...
Mark your calendars! Suffolk University’s Law School and the National Consumer Law Center are convening a Research Symposium on Credit Scoring and Credit Reporting in Boston, MA on June 6-7, 2012. The...
View ArticleThe 40-Year Itch
October 6, 2011 Would-be space explorers, scientists, and a couple of crackpots gather at DARPA’s 100-Year Starship Symposium to try to get interstellar travel unstuck. Konstantin KakaesOctober 6,...
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Core YouthSave Advisor, Carolina Trivelli, Named Peru’s Minister of Social...
Today, YouthSave’s core Research Advisory Council (RAC) member, Carolina Trivelli was appointed as Peru’s Minister of Social Inclusion. The newly formed Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion is...
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Summarizing the Research: Why Early Savings Leads to Later Savings
In recent years, researchers and policymakers have offered up young people’s savings policies (e.g., Child Development Accounts [CDAs], the ASPIRE Act) as potential solutions for mitigating the effects...
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Summarizing the Research: Asset Effects for Children with Disabilities
During one of our recent events, Sheldon Garon of Princeton University and Ray Boshara of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis referred to the weak household balance sheet as one of the core economic...
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Don't Miss These Upcoming Asset-Building Presentations
If you live or work in the Washington, D.C. / Virginia / Maryland area and are interested in asset-building, you are in for a treat. During January 11-15, 2012, approximately 20 individual research...
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Latest Debates and Lessons on Financial Capability: Highlights from the 2011...
By Jaya Burathoki, Save the ChildrenOriginally posted on www.youthsave.orgWhat is “financial capability” and how can we best nurture it to boost the social and economic prospects of the poor? This...
View ArticlePutting Clients at the Center of the Product Development Process
By Tanaya Kilara, CGAPReproduced from Microfinance Gateway and cross-posted on youthsave.orgWhen Proctor and Gamble (P&G) launched a concentrated, non-foaming detergent for low-income people in...
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Creating Financially Capable Communities at Home in DC and across the US
Yesterday’s President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability meeting sharpened the case for making financial capability building a top priority in the US. Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin set...
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Researchers Ask: What is Meaningful Broadband Adoption?
As federal and local authorities continue efforts to close the digital divide in the United States, innovative researchers are using new approaches to understand why some people “adopt” broadband—and...
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Towards a New Model for International Research Collaboration: Reflections on...
By Julia Stevens and Li Zou, Center for Social DevelopmentCross posted on YouthSave.orgOn April 17, 2012, a Symposium on International Research and Innovation at Washington University in St. Louis...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: Challenging Voter ID Laws and Breaking Down the God Particle
Reniqua Allen explains the controversy behind Texas' voter ID law and weighs in on Mitt Romney's cold reception at the NAACP. Konstantin Kakaes breaks down the science of the Higgs Boson, and argues...
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Investing in Girls
Opportunities for Innovation in Girl-Centered Cash Transfers October 11, 2012Jamie M. ZimmermanNicole ToshJamie HolmesOver the last decade, anti-poverty initiatives across the developing world have...
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Accumulating Wealth is related to Youth’s Math Achievement
The link between household wealth and youth’s educational outcomes has been confirmed by numerous research studies, finding that youth tend to do better educationally when their households have more...
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Special Section in the International Journal of Communications on Meaningful...
Since 2009, the federal government has funded 232 Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) digital training and access projects nationwide. New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute...
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