How to Get Real Tax Fairness
August 12, 2013Reid CramerAugust 12, 2013URL: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2013/08/how_to_get_real_tax_fairness046332.php
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This Op-Ed originally appeared at Ten Miles Square, a blog of The Washington Monthly magazine.Leaders from both parties and both chambers of Congress have vowed to wipe the tax code clean and...
View ArticleHow Food Stamps Keep Families in a Cycle of Poverty | Deseret News
September 6, 2013 Melissa and Jimmy's experience is not unique, according to Reid Cramner, a director with the New America Foundation's Asset Building Program, it is how American welfare works. The...
View ArticleSTATEMENT ON CENSUS NUMBERS: Historic Levels of Poverty Make Stronger Savings...
September 17, 2013WASHINGTON, DC— Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2012 national income, poverty and health insurance statistics for the United States. The data show that poverty persisted at...
View ArticleThe House’s food stamps cuts aren’t just cruel. They’re dumb. | The...
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A Citizen's Guide to the Financial Security Credit
Author(s): Reid CramerElliot SchreurOctober 15, 2013A proposal to create a Financial Security Credit was introduced as the Financial Security Credit Act of 2013 in the 113th Congress. The proposal is...
View ArticleNew America Experts Applaud Introduction of Bipartisan Bill to Promote Saving...
October 30, 2013WASHINGTON, DC– The Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation applauded Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA-17) and the other legislators who introduced a bipartisan bill that...
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Designing California's Secure Choice Savings Program
Policy Considerations for Building an Automatic and State-Based Savings Platform November 25, 2013Michael CalabreseReid CramerAleta Sprague Click here to read the full paper. Increasing access to...
View ArticleThe People’s Banker | Governing
December 4, 2013Cisneros has become a national leader on financial inclusion, says Reid Cramer, director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleThe Weekly Wonk: Interpreting Iran and the Inequality Playbook
Jake Sullivan, Vice President Joe Biden’s national security adviser and a key engineer of the Iranian interim nuclear deal, spotlights the most overlooked lever for changing policy in Iran– and the...
View ArticleASSET BUILDING PROGRAM APPLAUDS SENATOR RON WYDEN’S TAX REFORM VISION
INCOMING FINANCE CHAIR ENDORSES CHILDREN’S SAVINGS ACCOUNTS February 11, 2014WASHINGTON, DC – New America’s Asset Building Program applauds the incoming Chair of the United States Senate Finance...
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Welcome, Monica Potts!
We’re thrilled to welcome American Prospect Senior Writer Monica Potts as a Fellow with the Asset Building Program.At the Prospect, Monica has written extensively about challenges facing families in...
View ArticleThe Legacy of the War on Poverty
March 18, 2014Reid CramerMarch 18, 2014URL: http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/201108-legacy-of-the-war-on-poverty
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Just Published—The Assets Perspective
I am very pleased to announce the publication of The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and it Impact on Social Policy. It’s a 13-chapter edited volume which I worked on with Trina Shanks...
View ArticleEarly Tap of 401(k) Replaces Homes as American Piggy Bank | Bloomberg
May 6, 2014“They get hit with the penalty at exactly the time when they’re the most vulnerable,” said Reid Cramer, director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, which tries to...
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Solving the Retirement Puzzle
The Potential of myRAs to Build a Personal Safety Net May 12, 2014Reid CramerJustin KingElliot SchreurAleta Sprague Click here to read the full paper. The growing recognition that millions of...
View ArticleAmericans' New Piggy Bank: The 401(K) | Bloomberg Businessweek
May 15, 2014“They get hit with the penalty at exactly the time when they're the most vulnerable,” says Reid Cramer, director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, which tries to...
View ArticleShould We Save Like the Singaporeans Do?
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on New America's Weekly Wonk as part of the series, Globalization’s Canary: Singapore at 50. In the half-century since its independence, the strategically...
View ArticleObama's MyRA Proposal Needs Flexibility
June 3, 2014Reid CramerJune 3, 2014URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/208042-obamas-myra-proposal-needs-flexibility
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Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article published in The Hill on June 3, 2014. To read the full article, please click here. In this year's State of the Union, President Obama...
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Children's Savings Accounts
Research, Practice, and Implications for Policy Design June 18, 2014Reid CramerRachel BlackJustin KingURL:...
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Children's Savings Accounts have received a great deal of attention in 2014. The incoming Chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), made a splash when he highlighted CSAs as one of...
View ArticleWhy Do Chinese Students Know More About Money Than Americans Do? | The Atlantic
July 9, 2014“There’s a lot we don’t know about what works in financial education,” said Reid Cramer, director of the Assets Building Program at New America, a nonpartisan think tank based in...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Rich Hill
Rich Hill, Missouri, a once thriving coal town home to 1,400 people, is mined out. Like hundreds of other small towns across America, Rich Hill has experienced great losses in its industry, population,...
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Letter of Support for the "Financial Security Credit Act of 2013"
Author(s): Reid CramerAugust 1, 2013On August 1, 2013, the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation sent a letter to United States Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY-15) expressing support...
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