KIDS Accounts

An unlikely group of legislators, spanning the full political spectrum, is proposing a fresh, long-term response to the challenges of saving, financial education, 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-especially higher education, homeownership, and a nest-egg for retirement.

There could not be a better time to re-build a culture of savings in America, beginning with every child in America. Not since the Great Depression have Americans saved so little, and not since the Great Depression have so many Americans risked losing their homes to foreclosure.

Joining the Senate and House champions of the ASPIRE Act, will be New York Times columnist David Brooks, a sample of the bill’s leading supporters, and a teenager from Delaware now saving for his future.

Agenda

Welcome
Ray Boshara
Vice President and Director, Asset Building Program,New America Foundation

Moderator
David Brooks
Columnist, New York Times

Member remarks by the original co-sponsors of the ASPIRE Act, including
The Hon. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
U.S. Senate

The Hon. Jim Cooper (D-TN)
U.S. House of Representatives

The Hon. Phil English (R-PA)
U.S. House of Representatives

The Hon. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
U.S. House of Representatives

The Hon. Tom Petri (R-WI)
U.S. House of Representatives

Participants
Ric Edelman
Chairman, Edelman Financial Services

Brian Gallagher
President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way of America

Darrell Luzzo
Senior Vice President, Junior Achievement Worldwide

Jamar Nembard
10th grade student participating in the SEED children's savings initiative

Sorcha Warren
Affiliate Scholar, Institute for American Values