Baby Bonds In the News

Explore Baby Bonds news and media featuring Founding Director Darrick Hamilton. For more Baby Bonds news at the state and national levels, visit our Baby Bonds Around the U.S.

A Plan to Help Harlem Students Build Wealth: Start Them Off With $10,000 
May 9, 2024

One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
April 23, 2024

American States Are Quietly Embracing the 'Baby Bonds' Revolution to Fight Inequality 
April 8, 2024

Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out
February 27, 2024

The Architects of "Baby Bonds" Are Finally Seeing Some Momentum
February 1, 2024

Hear Us Out: We Ban Left Turns and Other Big Ideas
January 24, 2024

Mass. Eyes 'Baby Bonds' to Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap
December 26, 2023

Why This Economist Wants to Give Every Poor Child $50,000
June 23, 2023

Could $3,200 ‘Baby Bonds’ Help End Poverty in America?
May 12, 2023

Creating Wealth With ‘Baby Bonds’
September 20, 2022

A 'Birthright to Capital': An Economist Makes the Case for 'Baby Bonds'
April 29, 2022

Economist Hamilton on Baby Bonds and the Wealth Gap
March 22, 2022

A Once Radical Idea to Close the Wealth Gap Is Actually Happening
March 17, 2022

Baby Bonds Could Shrink the Black-White Wealth Gap
February 17, 2021

America’s Retirement Race Gap, and Ideas for Closing It
August 14, 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Intensified Systemic Economic Racism Against Black Americans
July 30, 2020

Could Baby Bonds Help Reduce Wealth Inequality In America?
July 21, 2020

A Cheap, Race-Neutral Way to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
June 29, 2020

Is It Race or Class? Darrick Hamilton Showed Bernie the Answer.
February 27, 2020

‘Baby Bonds’ Could Help the U.S. Wealth Gap
April 5, 2019

Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left to Go
July 14, 2019

Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race?
May 10, 2019

How "Baby Bonds" Could Help Close the Wealth Gap
September 2018

How 12 Experts Would End Inequality If They Ran America
April 6, 2018

There’s a Serious Proposal to Give Babies Born in the United States $20,000 (or More)
January 18, 2018

Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession
April 28, 2013