KIDS Accounts: Long-Lasting Solutions to Financial Education, Savings, and Retirement Security

An unlikely group of legislators, spanning the full political spectrum, is proposing a fresh, long-term response to the challenges of financial education, saving, and retirement security: KIDS Accounts.

By providing every newborn child a savings account at birth, with matching deposits for lower-income children, KIDS Accounts will create a national culture of savings and investing, promote financial education, and encourage life-long asset accumulation

Participants

• David Brooks
  Columnist, The New York Times


• Rick Santorum
  (R-PA), United States Senate


• Jon S Corzine
  (D-NJ), United States Senate


• Charles Schumer
  (D-NY), United States Senate


• Jim DeMint
  (R-SC), United States Senate


• Harold E. Ford Jr.
  (D-TN), U.S. House of Representatives


• Patrick Kennedy
  (D-RI), U.S. House of Representatives


• Phil English
  (R-PA), U.S. House of Representatives


• Tom Petri
  (R-WI), U.S. House of Representatives


• Vic Wolff
  INGDIRECT


• Laura Levine
  Jump$tart Coalition


• Benita Melton
  Charles Stewart Mott Foundation


• Robert Friedman
  CFED