By Natalie Foster | December 16, 2024 Baby Bonds are an increasingly popular bipartisan government policy in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth. This “start-up capital” allows young adults to access education, home ownership, and entrepreneurship, enabling them to build wealth and lead lives that are hopeful, fulfilling, productive, prosperous, and self-directed. Follow … Read More
Wealth, Mental Health, and Baby Bonds
By Annie Harper | November 19, 2024 Baby Bonds are an increasingly popular bipartisan government policy in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth. This “start-up capital” allows young adults to access education, home ownership, and entrepreneurship, enabling them to build wealth and lead lives that are hopeful, fulfilling, productive, prosperous, and self-directed. … Read More
Mental Health as a Beneficiary of Wealth Building
By Catherine K. Ettman | November 19, 2024 Baby Bonds are an increasingly popular bipartisan government policy in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth. This “start-up capital” allows young adults to access education, home ownership, and entrepreneurship, enabling them to build wealth and lead lives that are hopeful, fulfilling, productive, prosperous, and … Read More
An Appetite for Change: Baby Bonds and a Landscape for a Human Rights Economy in Chicago
By Suparna Bhaskaran, Elaine Chang, and Sam Scipio | October 22, 2024 Baby Bonds are an increasingly popular bipartisan government policy in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth. This “start-up capital” allows young adults to access education, home ownership, and entrepreneurship, enabling them to build wealth and lead lives that are hopeful, … Read More
Baby Bonds and the Myth That Made Us
By Jeff Fuhrer | October 22, 2024 Baby Bonds are an increasingly popular bipartisan government policy in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth. This “start-up capital” allows young adults to access education, home ownership, and entrepreneurship, enabling them to build wealth and lead lives that are hopeful, fulfilling, productive, prosperous, and self-directed. … Read More
Commentary: Culture Wars and the Soul of America
By Tim Komatsu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst