From Research to Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts

From Research to Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Account

Two Extraordinary Days for Race and Electoral Democracy in America

In this Perspective, Michael Sherraden draws optimism from participation in the January 5, 2021, special election in Georgia, as well as the national repudiation of the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Together, these events create an opportunity to shape a better future

Assets and the Poor: Implications for Individual Accounts and Social Security

Assets and the Poor: Implications for Individual Accounts and Social Securit

Asset Building Policy and Programs for the Poor

Asset Building Policy and Programs for the Poo

Toward Progressive 529 Plans: Key Points

This brief introduces key talking points on 529 plans, their potential, current flaws, and how inclusive and progressive features might remedy them

Service Enquiry Service in the 21st Century

The workshop set out to acknowledge and explore the potential of youth service as a strategy for social, economic and democratic development, to identify new work that needs to be undertaken, and to increase knowledge about youth

Asset-Based Policy and the Child Trust Fund

Asset-Based Policy and the Child Trust Fun

A Promising Platform for College Saving

As part of President Obama’s larger agenda to create a “save and invest” economy, a review of College Savings (529) Plans is underway to expand their use by middle- and low-income families. In this College Savings Initiative perspective, Sherraden examines the challenges and potential of 529s

Toward a Universal and Progressive Asset-Based Domestic Policy

Toward a Universal and Progressive Asset-Based Domestic Polic

Comments on Receiving the Distinguished Career Achievement Award of the Society for Social Work and Research

This Perspective presents remarks given by Founding Director Michael Sherraden upon receiving the Society for Social Work and Research’s 2023 Distinguished Career Achievement Award in a ceremony at the society’s 2023 annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 14, 2023