http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog Asset Building Blog Sat, 09 May 2009 01:43:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, President Obama released his detailed budget for FY 2010. In addition to healthcare reform, efforts to strengthen the economy and strategies to decrease the national deficit, the President has more than doubled funding for some programs and fully funded new programs that provide economic opportunity to low-and moderate-income ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/201 The gap in income between the wealthiest Americans and all others has grown considerably in recent decades. According to a new report released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, between 1979 and 2006 the income gap between the rich and the poor tripled. A growing body ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/163 EARN has joined millions of Americans on one of the newest social networking sites, Twitter! Yes, that’s right EARN is Twittering. We will “tweet” to inform you about new research, as well as relevant articles and reports. In return, we would like to hear your thoughts; you can ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/139 I recently had a blinding flash of the obvious. Much of the social sector is ignoring a vast, powerful layer of infrastructure that can help us all achieve our goals of creating prosperity for hard working, low income Americans: the nearly ubiquitous mobile phone. In places like Bangladesh ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/137 In a recent New York Times article Robert J. Shiller, professor of Economics and Finance at Yale, puts forth the idea of government sponsored financial advice as part of the government bailouts earmarked for financial institutions. He posits that everyone needs individualized financial advice to help them make ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/134 APIC has recently released a new white paper entitled American Dream 2.0: Safe and Sound First-Time Homeownership Strategies for Working Families in California. This paper offers a series of actionable strategies on homeownership policy for California's business, nonprofit, and government leaders. At the Assets and Homeownership Symposium, APIC and the ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/128 President-elect Barack Obama has announced the creation of a White House Task Force on Working Families. His announcement comes at a crucial time when nearly 23 million families are at risk of falling out of America's middle class, according to a Demos study. The task force will be a major ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/133 The oasis looked like a pleasant place to rest the camels, sleep in the shade, and bathe in a flowing brook. How disheartening to realize that it was just an illusion and that the travelers in the caravan had many more miles to go. Older workers today are feeling like those ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/125 Our recent era of “self regulated” financial services seems to have a way of converting scams into large - scale businesses. Payday lending, for instance, has emerged through blind spots in state and federal law, and has been a scourge for working people across America. Anecdotally, one hears there ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/122 How would you define the point at which a family is poor in this country? How about in San Francisco? Most people are shocked when they learn how the federal government measures poverty. If you’re unfamiliar with this number you too will be shocked. Especially if you are a Californian. ... http://www.assetpolicy.org/blog/archives/120