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We Can Advance Economic Equity Through Automatic Enrollment for Emergency Savings

Policymakers can make emergency savings easier for people with low and moderate incomes.

BY Jason Ewas & 1 more

Blog Post

10.11.2022
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Launching the Housing Policy Matchmaker

As communities across the US experience the effects of an increasing housing affordability crisis, local officials are often called upon.

BY Tim Shaw & 1 more

Of Interest

09.19.2022
Family Finances

Reimagining a U.S. Benefits System That Supports All Workers

In early April 2022, the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP) convened its inaugural Benefits21 Leadership Forum (Forum) as part of Benef ...

BY Financial Security Program

Publication

09.12.2022
Family Finances

Financial Security at the Core

Benefits are foundational to achieving financial security, yet many workers and their families lack these critical supports. This report identifies a start ...

BY Rachel Black

Publication

09.12.2022
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Building Blocks of Wealth

Across rural America and in urban centers throughout the country, there is a little-known roadblock to economic growth and personal prosperity that is keep ...

BY Tim Shaw & 1 more

Publication

09.09.2022
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Benefits Scorecard

A new framework to assess how both public and private benefits to support workers’ financial security needs.

Publication

07.11.2022
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Workplace Benefits Met Crisis: Supporting Worker Cash Flow

This report summarizes a set of Benefits21 roundtable discussions we hosted in September and October 2021 with influential leaders: executives from large c ...

Publication

06.16.2022
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Can Emergency Savings Support the Retirement System?

American households face widespread financial insecurity, with lack of short-term savings a particularly urgent issue. A recent national BPC survey found t ...

BY Financial Security Program

Blog Post

05.31.2022
Family Finances

Thirteen million US households have negative net worth.

The share of U.S. households with negative net worth – meaning that the amount of debt they owe exceeds the value of all the assets they own – jumped above its historical trend during the Great Recession (2007-2009) and never returned to normal.

BY Shehryar Nabi

Blog Post

05.25.2022
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