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Tax Policy’s Impediment to Economic Betterment
If saving is the first step to economic success, current tax policy is the gate at the bottom of the stairs. As a recent Congressional Budget Office report shows, most of the tax incentives associated...
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Asset Building News Week, July 8-12
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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Personal Savings and Tax Reform
Principles and Policy Proposals for Reforming the Tax Code July 22, 2013Reid CramerElliot SchreurClick here to read the full paper.The tax code is riddled with inequities, especially for families with...
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Paper Release: Personal Savings and Tax Reform
With Congress locked in a seemingly endless loop of disagreement and dysfunction, hoping for a big, bipartisan effort to reform our tax code seems more and more like wishful thinking. Still, there are...
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Congressman Serrano Announces Intention to Introduce Financial Security...
On Monday we released our paper “Personal Savings and Tax Reform: Principles and Policy Proposals for Reforming the Tax Code,” which included our proposal for a flexible, accessible Financial Security...
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Asset Building News Week, July 22-26
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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Asset Building News Week, July 29-August 2
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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Abbreviated Asset Building News Week, August 5-9
The Asset Building News Week is in recess this week. In its absence, here are a few resources and news stories from this week that are worth checking out.Every week is a good week to read "This Week in...
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Lessons on Tax-Time Savings from the 2013 NCTC National Conference
Last week, the National Community Tax Coalition (NCTC) held its biannual conference featuring experts and practitioners from a variety of fields who shared their insights into the ways taxes affect the...
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Behavioral Insights into Tax Time Savings from CSD’s Tax Filing Experiment
As I mentioned yesterday on the blog, the findings shared in Krista Holub’s presentation at the National Community Tax Coalition’s 2013 conference have the potential to reshape the way we think about...
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Author(s): Elliot SchreurSeptember 25, 2013On September 12th, 2013, Elliot Schreur presented "Tax Reform and Asset Building" to the 2013 National Community Tax Coalition conference.You can find a copy...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar: How the Federal Tax Code is Driving Inequity And What You...
The Asset Building Program is a co-sponsor for an upcoming webinar (coordinated by Asset Funders Network and PolicyLink) on November 7th regarding the relationship between inequity and current tax...
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Guest Post: How Asset Tests Punish the Poor
Editor's Note: This guest post is by Benjamin Landy, a Policy Associate at The Century Foundation. The article originally appeared on tcf.org.Last week, national media reported on the story of a...
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Ohio’s Tax Time Coalition
Building Assets through Free Tax Preparation in Franklin County, 2013 November 22, 2013David Rothstein Click here to read the full paper. Throughout the country, a network of over 4,300 Volunteer...
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New Paper: Building Assets Through Free Tax Prep
For millions of struggling American families, filing taxes has become associated with more than just a pile of annoying paperwork. Tax time represents a significant opportunity to build financial...
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Can Tax Policy Live Up to Its New Role in the Fight Against Poverty?
Last, week, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center hosted a half-day event on the role tax policy has played in efforts to fight poverty since the declaration of the War on Poverty. The panelists agreed...
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Connecting Tax Time to Financial Security
Designing Public Policy with Evidence from the Field February 25, 2014Rachel BlackElliot Schreur Click here to read the full paper. The ability to accumulate and access savings is a fundamental...
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Guest Post: Six Tax Reforms to Increase Economic Security for All
Editor's note: this blog post was authored by Heather McCulloch, Manager of the Tax Policy Project of the Asset Funders Network. It originally appeared on the ACCESS to Financial Security site and is...
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Asset Building News Week, April 14-18
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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Solving the Retirement Puzzle
The Potential of myRAs to Build a Personal Safety Net May 12, 2014Reid CramerJustin KingElliot SchreurAleta Sprague Click here to read the full paper. The growing recognition that millions of...
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