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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: New York Times
Clearer Bank Account Terms
Consumer advocates are rightly pressuring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to require banks to disclose important terms on checking accounts like the monthly fee in easy-to-understand forms. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Washington Post
A Brainpower Revolution
This is a moment when policymakers should be thinking big, not small. History will little note nor long remember that the payroll tax holiday was extended for two months rather than 12. The complex and difficult questions we’re avoiding, however, may haunt us through the century.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Congressional Quarterly
Campaigning on the Equity Card
The richest Americans generally don’t have the loudest voices when it comes to politics—billionaires don’t have to shout to make their preferences known. But in recent months, as President Obama has cast the widening divide between the rich and the poor in the United States as unfair and unjust, prominent members of the “1 percent” have had an unusually public message for him: Cool it.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Washington Post
The Marriage Gap Presents a Real Cost
If current trends hold, within a few years, less than half the U.S. adult population will be married. This precipitous decline isn’t just a social problem. It’s also an economic problem.
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- Home Visiting Campaign
- Source: Go Upstate
Home-Visiting Legislation Can Mean Better Outcomes for Families
When I talk with families from Spartanburg about the challenging issues facing South Carolina, they tell me they want their hard-earned tax dollars to be spent wisely—on programs and services that actually deliver results.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Frum Forum
What Keeps the American Dream Alive?
President Obama’s recent speech on income inequality and upward mobility has struck a chord with many Democrats. If the President keeps using this rhetoric, then it could become a central message of the 2012 campaign. If this happens, I would also bet that Elizabeth Warren will give the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention in 2012.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: The American Prospect
How President Obama's Economic Message Could Backfire in 2012
A majority of Americans believe the government is helping the "wrong" people. Whether Obama's message succeeds depends on who those people are. If there was anything notable about President Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas last week, it was the extent to which he attacked economic inequality in the United States, and its deletrious effects on income mobility.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: U.S. News & World Report
Do Expensive Homes Make for Wealthy Kids?
It seems like common sense: Children from wealthier families tend to do better, while children from poorer families have a tougher time climbing the ladder. Today comes one piece of evidence showing exactly how precarious that ladder climb can be for families of modest means.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: New York Times
Chase Adopts Simplified Checking Disclosure
Chase has become the first big bank to voluntarily adopt a simplified, plain-language checking account disclosure, as proposed by an arm of the nonprofit group Pew Charitable Trusts. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: USA Today
Blacks, Hispanics Find Reasons for Optimism
With millions of Americans suffering severe economic hardships, the image of a Dickensian holiday season is hard to dismiss. Yet those with the least are surprisingly more optimistic about the future.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: National Public Radio
Moving On Up More Difficult in America
NPR's All Things Considered interivews Economic Mobility Project Manager Erin Currier, who highlights a recent EMP fact sheet showing less economic mobility in the Unites States than other rich nations.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: USA Today
Column: Blacks, Hispanics Find Reasons for Optimism
With millions of Americans suffering severe economic hardships, the image of a Dickensian holiday season is hard to dismiss. Yet those with the least are surprisingly more optimistic about the future.
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- Election Initiatives
- Source: electionline.org
Voters Want Information Online, But Will They Find It?
“Am I registered to vote?” “Where is my polling place?” These are common questions voters routinely ask before heading to the polls and casting their ballots. But easily finding answers to these questions depends, to a large extent, on whether their state election agencies are providing information and tools on their websites.
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- Public Safety Performance Project
- Source: ncsl.org
7 Things Lawmakers Need To Consider When Reforming Corrections Policy
State lawmakers are reforming sentencing laws and correction policies across the country. They have two key objectives: Quickly cut state spending on corrections and ensure public safety is protected in the future.
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- States' Fiscal Health
- Source: npr.org
As U.S., Europe Hack At Budgets, Pensions Get Sliced
Despite boasting one of the highest per capita incomes in the country, San Jose, Calif., is running large and growing deficits. The main reason is pensions and other benefits for retired city workers, such as health insurance. San Jose's problems are severe, but hardly unique. In recent years, pension costs have become a central concern both in the U.S. and in Europe.
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- Public Safety Performance Project
- Source: ncsl.org
New Approaches Simplify Sentencing, Get More Drug Abusers Treatment and Save States Money
As much as 80 percent of what states spend for prisons, parole and probation is for offenders involved with drugs. Most of that money is spent on building and operating prisons, according to a study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: American Banker
Time to Stop Arguing About Disclosure Reform
In October 2010, the Pew Safe Checking Project began a study of checking account terms and conditions at the 10 largest banks in the United States. One noteworthy finding was that the median length of disclosure documents was 111 pages. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Huffington Post
Poor, Homeless Students Living Out Of Cars As Childhood Poverty Climbs (VIDEO)
More than 16 million children now live in poverty in the United States, the highest number since 1962. In all, 19.8 percent of school children were living in poverty in 2010, and childhood poverty rates increased significantly in one of every five U.S. counties between 2007 and 2010, according to a Census Bureau report released today. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: KQED Radio
Passing on Family Wealth
If you grow up in poverty, or in a wealthy family, chances are good you'll remain at that economic level.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: National Public Radio
Week In Politics: Taking The Country's Pulse
Guy Raz talks with weekly commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times, about the tough spot Congress is in, observations on the political divide, economic mobility and disagreement over core values.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: St. Louis Today
Editorial: The Mayflower Compact Had It Right; Today's America Doesn't
We celebrate this Thanksgiving in times of near-record income inequality and near-record levels of poverty. Many Americans rationalize this with the comfortable myth that in America, anyone with enough grit and gumption can climb society's ladder.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: New York Times
Fatalism and the American Dream
Two of my colleagues have alluded to a recent Pew Research Center report on American exceptionalism, paying particular attention to the fact that Americans are more likely to say their culture is superior to others than are people in Germany, Spain, Britain or France.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Los Angeles Times
California's Wealth Pyramid
The most durable message from the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the nation is also the simplest: "We are the 99%." But are the implications of that message fair? Is there a widening gap between rich and poor? Are those doing well just a fraction of the populace?
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: National Review Online
Incarceration and Mobility: One Pretty Big Reason We’re Not Denmark
Catherine Rampell suggests that people are more likely to achieve the American Dream if they move to Denmark, drawing on data from the Pew Economic Mobility Project.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: New York Times
Occupy the Agenda
You have to wonder: Could Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police chiefs around the country be secretly backing the Occupy Wall Street movement?
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