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Giving Children Something to Live For
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Seeding Accounts for Kindergartners and Hoping to Grow College Graduates
October 11, 2021 -
Can you change a kid's life with $25? Fund My Future Milwaukee thinks so.
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Kids need education to succeed. Wisconsin needs skilled workers for the future. Could a children's savings program be the answer?
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2021's States with the Most and Least Student Debt
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‘The language of consumer debt is rife with moral undertones’
July 9, 2021 -
How California college savings accounts sow the seeds of higher learning at a young age
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College Accounts at Birth: State Efforts Raise New Hopes
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How Baby Bonds Could Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap
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The Toll of Student Debt Goes Beyond Failing to Build Wealth
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Imagining CSAs as a Tool for Combating Wealth Inequality
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Why children’s savings accounts should be America’s next wealth transfer program
February 12, 2018At a time of great wealth inequality and dramatically unequal chancesbetween the rich and the poor of getting a...
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Dr Terri Friedline, Why children’s savings accounts should be America’s next wealth transfer program
February 6, 2018Dr. Terri Friedline is AEDI Faculty Director for Financial Inclusion and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. In August, Dr. Friedline had a piece published in Huffington Post. Title,
Straight Talk MD with Frank Sweeny
October 31, 2017College tuition has become unaffordable to many highly qualified students from middle and low income families. 7 out of 10 college students today must take out loans to pay for college. For those who choose to take on these loans, it means crushing debt that will threaten their future financial...
How to Pay for Free Community College
October 5, 2017The popularity of college promise programs -- or tuition-free initiatives for community colleges and in some cases for four-year degrees -- has been growing across the country in the last few years.
But despite enthusiasm from families, policy makers, businesses and organizations to...
Merging of Savings Accounts Proposed for College Funding
October 4, 2017Children’s savings accounts and college promise initiatives could be stronger if the two funding mechanisms for higher education were merged together, a professor argues in new paper that drew praise from a U.S. Senator who says he plans to pursue legislation and funding that would make it...
CSAs Highlighted in The Hill, a popular blog read by members of Congress
August 10, 2017CSAs were highlighted in The Hill, a popular blog read by members of Congress. The author refers to San Francisco’s K2C program as well as Dr. Elliott’s research supporting the positive effects of even small savings amounts.
Dr. Elliott and Melinda Lewis co-author Piece for New America
August 10, 2017In December 2016, when the greater-than-expected costs of student debt forgiveness within Income-Based Repayment plans was prominent in the news, Dr. Elliott and Melinda Lewis co-authored a piece for New America about the true costs and insufficiencies of IBR schemes
Dr. Elliott Interviewed for Inversant’s Podcast Series
August 10, 2017Demonstrating AEDI’s commitment to engaging in multiple media formats, Dr. Elliott was interviewed for Inversant’s podcast series. He framed CSAs as conduits for wealth transfers that are uniquely consistent with American values.
Dr. Elliott Wrote About Inequities in the Financial Aid System for Talk Poverty
August 10, 2017Dr. Elliott wrote a piece for Talk Poverty about how inequities in the financial aid system constrain upward mobility and undermine education’s potency as an equalizing force in society, as well as how CSAs can counter these effects.
MarketWatch Features Dr. Elliott’s research
August 10, 2017MarketWatch featured Dr. Elliott’s research documenting the extent to which student debt slows college graduates’ ascent to the median of the income and wealth distributions, in October 2016. The piece subsequently generated some
Professor: Student Debt Threatening American Dream
July 22, 2015Time for Revolution in Higher Education Funding has Come, Professors Say
July 21, 2015Advantaging the Advantaged Once Again
July 20, 2015Are Child Savings Accounts Our Way Out of the Student Debt Crisis?
July 17, 2015
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