May 17, 2013
Here are the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
May 3, 2013
Here are the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
May 2, 2013
There is no doubt Americans are aware of rising inequality.
Apr 26, 2013
Here are the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
Apr 19, 2013
Here are the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
Apr 5, 2013
This is a new feature of The Inclusive Economy that shares the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
Mar 29, 2013
This is a new feature of The Inclusive Economy that shares the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
Mar 22, 2013
This is a new feature of The Inclusive Economy that will share the top news and developments of the week from the asset-building field
Mar 13, 2013
All too often, we hear the horror stories of consumers trapped by payday lenders, looking for a way to make ends meet
Mar 6, 2013
Wealth inequality has become central to the debate over whether our nation is on a sustainable economic path
Feb 13, 2013
Back in 2009, the federal government launched DATA.gov, a website aimed at providing easy access to quality
Sep 17, 2012
While homelessness has been a “persistent and enduring feature in American history
Aug 28, 2012
BOB FRIEDMAN ’71 will never forget the moment at the Harlem Children’s Zone when the five-year-old son of a poor single mother
Aug 1, 2012
On Thursday July 28, the New America Foundation hosted the event Youth and Their Money
Jul 18, 2012
Governor Perdue’s veto of the $20.2 billion state budget proposed by the Republican-led legislature and the subsequent
Jul 12, 2012
In a recent New York Times op-ed, David Brooks explores the “Opportunity Gap” and the role it will play
Jun 1, 2012
In the current polarized political environment, many people assume that more government intervention equals more spending
May 30, 2012
Last month, FDIC released the final report from its Model Safe Accounts Pilot, a one-year exploration
May 15, 2012
Last week, ROC USA® and Enterprise Community Partners released a report titled
May 3, 2012
ROC USA® and CFED have long recognized the struggles faced by owners of manufactured homes when they rent the land beneath their homes in communities or “mobile home parks.” Yesterday, the plight of these individuals was garnering some much needed national attention.
Apr 20, 2012
Two years ago, when I saw a job opening at CFED, the decision apply was an easy one. As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants
Apr 17, 2012
Happy tax day, everybody! Depending on your current tax filing status, today’s tax filing deadline may
Apr 13, 2012
In his paper, “Education and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective,” David Mitch paraphrases the 1776 writing of Adam Smith
Mar 23, 2012
Yesterday, I came across a New York Times article that I re-posted to JoinBankOn.org about the challenges facing
Mar 13, 2012
As you may remember, CFED Founder Bob Friedman spoke earlier this year at the Big Ideas for Job Creation Forum
Feb 29, 2012
Earlier this month, CFED formally joined the Opportunity Nation Coalition as a member of its Steering Committee.
Feb 27, 2012
CFED is pleased to join the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a 2012 KIDS COUNT outreach partner.
Feb 23, 2012
Take a look at SETI’s first-ever brief on Empowering Entrepreneurs at Tax Time! This brief, sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation
Feb 13, 2012
For years it was the dream of many Americans to send their children to college. However, it has turned into a fiscal nightmare
Jan 6, 2012
I hope you’ll consider adding blogging for The Inclusive Economy to your to-do list. It’s a great way to
Dec 20, 2011
A young person’s success in going to and graduating from college depends, at least in part, on
Dec 16, 2011
Late last week, my colleague and CFED Founder Bob Friedman sent me an article from A Capital
Dec 15, 2011
Twenty years ago, Michael Sherraden’s seminal work, Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy, appeared. It changed my life, and more importantly, the lives of tens of thousands, soon to be millions or tens of millions, of low-income people and their advocates, around the world.
Nov 28, 2011
This morning, CFED’s President Andrea Levere was a featured guest on “Forum
Nov 28, 2011
Last month, innovation@cfed Strategic Advisor Langdon Morris released a new book titled The
Nov 17, 2011
Saving money for the future is never an easy thing for anyone, no matter what our
Nov 17, 2011
Saving money for the future is never an easy thing for anyone, no matter what our
Nov 1, 2011
This morning, CFED, with support from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and in partnership with
Oct 24, 2011
I was hoping for a clever pun that drew on coffee and job creation, but ‘stimulating’ was the
Oct 17, 2011
We really like to use ‘In Case You Missed It’ to point your attention toward interesting reads
Oct 12, 2011
Please take a look at our newest prize-linked savings (PLS) publication,
Oct 11, 2011
A new Kauffman Foundation publication examines why business startup rates are lower for women.
Oct 6, 2011
Earlier this week we came across ‘Mission: Innovation,’ the newest blog from The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Sep 29, 2011
Journalist Don Peck has just written one of the most important books yet published on the Great Recession
Sep 19, 2011
While cleaning up my office, I ran across a lecture, authored by Professor Edward (Ned) Hill, that I embarrassingly never read
Sep 14, 2011
Diana Mutz’s book, “Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy”
Sep 7, 2011
"New Lessons Behind Kids' Allowances" (News, Aug. 28) is interesting fodder for parents considering how best to
Sep 6, 2011
Forbes' Rahim Kanani recently interviewed CFED founder and general counsel Bob Friedman for his column that focuses on leadership in the social sector.
Aug 29, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Aug 23, 2011
FOR generations of children, the idea of saving first became real when a savings bond landed in a birthday
Aug 18, 2011
CFED is pleased to join the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book outreach partner.
Aug 9, 2011
Representatives of 11 Chicago-area community development organizations and Citi will gather today to applaud Chicago City Treasurer Stephanie D. Neely’s launch of the Bank On Chicago financial inclusion initiative and to announce that they have joined together to form the Chicago Credit Building Coalition.
Aug 8, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Aug 3, 2011
Of the three component of the competitiveness triangle – innovation, entrepreneurship and human capital
Aug 2, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Jul 26, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Jul 25, 2011
“Tax cuts for job creators!” It is a rallying cry echoing these days from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jul 19, 2011
In Thomas Friedman’s July 12th op-ed column in the New York Times, he points out the mismatched nature
Jul 12, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Jul 11, 2011
Today marked the first loan given as part of Hunkpati Investment’s newest program, the Credit Builder program
Jul 6, 2011
Due to our Independence Day hiatus, this week’s ‘In Case You Missed It’ is coming to you on Wednesday.
Jun 30, 2011
CNN Money has a chart, above, showing the stark rise in average college costs at four-year public universities
Jun 27, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Jun 21, 2011
Last month I attended the RAND Behavioral Finance Forum on Consumer Financial Protection
Jun 20, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere.
Jun 13, 2011
In case you missed it, here’s your recap of last week’s top posts from in and around the assets & opportunity blogosphere
Jun 7, 2011
Last month, FIELD, a project of the Aspen Institute, released this video, making the case for why
Jun 6, 2011
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s post is the first in a new series that we’ll be featuring about once a week
Jun 2, 2011
Last time I talked about the unappreciated complementarity between high-potential and small business entrepreneurship
May 9, 2011
This morning, I came across an article from Nonprofit Quarterly about the role social media is playing in the nonprofit sector
May 5, 2011
Recently, a paper coauthored by CFED Federal Policy Analyst Katherine Lucas-Smith was published in the Suffolk University Law Review.
May 5, 2011
This post examines a long-simmering tension within the entrepreneurship advocacy community
May 2, 2011
Longtime friend of CFED Mariko Lin Chang forwarded us the link to a recent op-ed that she
Apr 27, 2011
Last month, the Assets for Independence Act (AFI) IDA Resource center profiled CFED Founder and Chairman
Apr 22, 2011
Today, CFED published Applying Behavioral Research to Asset-Building Initiatives, the findings from 2010
Apr 5, 2011
Progressive policymakers and advocates have been pining for a book that maps the “high road” to a more democratic
Apr 1, 2011
Practical Action, based in Great Britain, is the successor organization to
Mar 31, 2011
It’s been a long winter for kids’ issues in Washington
Feb 17, 2011
The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research has continued doing much appreciated work in publishing leading-edge scholarly, but useful research with three new books and the findings from a recent conference. Let’s start with the books.
Feb 15, 2011
If the reader has any interest in the Great Recession and reads books, not just articles, he or she would have been struck by the virtual avalanche of books on the subject. I have probably read a dozen, as well as read some refresher pieces on Keynes, macroeconomics, history of Wall Street, and so forth. There are some great journalistic articles and scholarly tomes and lots of great stories out there.
Nov 24, 2010
Given today’s high unemployment rate and slow economic recovery, many American ex-workers would appreciate landing any job. But when they return to the workplace, issues of wages and working conditions will return. Two complimentary books that I recently ran across focus on these issues admirably. The first is authored by economist Francis Green and is a clearly written scholarly treatise that probes the major issues in “Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy.” (2006) The second work, “Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America’s Best Workers are Unhappier than Ever” (2008) is a fascinating and moving exercise in the journalistic art. It tells a good story.
Oct 29, 2010
There is nothing like a financial crisis to spur the publishing world to generate new books, both good and bad, on the subject. Some tomes stick close to the causes and consequences, while others explore a variety of related topics. Indeed, a number of writers use today’s Great Recession as an opportunity to raise fundamental concerns about the theory, policy, methods, validity, and truth of mainstream neo-classical economics.
Oct 4, 2010
How quickly things change. A few years ago (and continuing to this day), there were an avalanche of books about the wily economist who could cut through the bull and overturn common sense, regarding the workings of the economy and the reflections and choices of “Economic Man.” Titles included: Freakonomics, The Logic of Life, Why Economics Explains Almost Everything, The Soulful Science, to name just a few.
Apr 9, 2009
It may be true that nonprofits attract executive directors and staff who find something lacking in working for a firm in the private sector. And it is also generally the case that the management side of running a nonprofit is not beloved by most who aspire to make a difference in the not-for-profit world. It's the content that attracts them, not the administration.
Sep 9, 2008
Don't get your hopes up - this is not the definitive article. It's actually a series of book reviews that have been cobbled together. In sifting through these works, I have been selective, if not arbitrary in what I will discuss. And I must warn you that not all these works are hot-off-the-press. They were lying around and I just got a hankering to read them in whole or part during the past month.
Oct 16, 2007
Philip Dine’s “State of the Unions” has a subtitle that says it all: “How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Retain Political Influence.”
Sep 27, 2007
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America is a fun, fascinating read. The author, Eric Rauchway, knows how to assemble his evidence and how to tell a story. The book is an examination of an earlier period of globalization. The country was in a unique position, from the Civil War to World War I. During this period, it was the place to invest and a massive amount of foreign capital flowed into the U.S., as its population soared and the Western frontier was developed.
Sep 26, 2007
This appears to be the virtual consensus among those practitioners of the “dismal science,” if one turns to the advice of three fairly recent books on the subject: William Baumol, Alan Blinder and Edward Wolfe’s Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes and Consequences (2003); Pierre Cahuc and Andre Zylberberg’s The Natural Survival of Work: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Growing Economy (2006); and Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger and Julia Lane’s Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? (2006). We should note that some of these authors could be regarded as liberals (for instance, Blinder and Wolfe). I am making this point so that the reader will not assume that these books are all written by conservatives and libertarians.
Sep 25, 2007
Economists often claim that they are the only genuine social scientists. Not everybody buys this line.
Aug 23, 2007
Barrington Moore, Jr. was “old school.” Professor Moore went to private schools as a youth, graduated from Yale, and never fought for tenure at Harvard because he lived on inherited wealth. He spent half of each year sailing, taught only two classes per year, and required anybody wanting to take one of his courses to first demonstrate that they could write decent prose. Dedicated to seeking the truth wherever it took him, he was an intellectual’s intellectual, knew Greek, Latin and German and was conversant in the fields of history, sociology and political science. He was an expert on the Soviet Union, revolution and totalitarianism, as well as a moralist and political theorist. Although left-of-center, politically, he never was a fan of Communism. Yet he tried very hard in his work to see things from a Communist point of view.
Aug 14, 2007
The recent book by Sandra Burud and Marie Tumolo, Leveraging The New Human Capital: Adaptive Strategies, Results Achieved, and Stories of Transformation, is a terrific achievement. The work includes excellent overview essays by big thinkers, such as Peter Senge, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Reich, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. The essays cover the following topics: the importance of relational capital, the new leadership and the need for a better balance between work and family, along with in-depth case studies of DuPont, Baxter International, SAS, and FIN. The cumulative impact of these articles is quite persuasive, making a strong case that changing demographics and technology, the widespread emergence of the “knowledge worker”, globalization, faster product cycles and increased work hours are driving changes in human capital strategies. This book confirms that people increasingly drive business success, but also that today’s workers have a dual focus—family and work—and strive to achieve a good balance between the two.
Jul 31, 2007
Daniel J. Fiorino’s The New Environmental Regulation is an important book for environmentalists and economic developers. Following in the footsteps of James Boyd (Resources for the Future), Peter Barnes (author of Skytrust), Malcolm Sparrow (Kennedy School), Archon Fung (Kennedy School) and Daniel Esty (author of Green to Gold), Fiorino seeks to demonstrate that the United States has accomplished all the environmental protection that it can with its traditional approaches to regulation.
Jul 27, 2007
MIT professor and expert on Asian economies, Alice Amsden, takes aim at different game in Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell: U.S. foreign economic policies. Professor Amsden thinks that these policies have taken a turn for the worse. In the recent past, she argues that the United States let other countries, unless they were communist or in danger of “going communist,” do their own thing. (American-aided coups in places, such as Guatemala, Iran and Chile, were the response if you turned toward what U.S. policymakers regarded as the “Dark Side.”) In general, however, the U.S. took a hands-off approach, offering aid and encouragement while putting some modest pressure on nations to lower tariffs or other traditional protectionist tools. This practice allowed the Third World to explore scores of different economic development approaches, ranging from export promotion to import substitution, from state ownership to partnerships with Big Oil.
Jun 12, 2007
You might not normally think that books with the titles, The Economy Of Puerto Rico (2006) or Multinational Firms in the World Economy (Princeton University Press: 2006), would be mandatory reading for advocates of more accountable economic development programs in the United States. But they are. The Island nature of Puerto Rico and its ties to the United States make it a fascinating business climate “laboratory.” The latter study of multinationals includes data on transnational investments in both developed and developing countries, as well a comprehensive review of the foreign location literature.
Jun 12, 2007
The 2006 Mid-term Elections have turned the American political and policy worlds upside down – or, may be right side up. Earlier this year, two of our friends and extremely bright economists authored two very accessible tracts on making the American economy a bit more just and decent. The chances of their proposals becoming reality are lots higher today. The first that I will discuss is Dean Baker’s The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.
Apr 23, 2007
Individual development accounts, citizen-based trust funds, basic capital grants, broadened stock ownership, and other such ideas that are being refined, proposed, and discussed by today's asset building movement are not utterly unique creations. As the cliché puts it “There is nothing new under the sun."
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