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Announcing The New CSD!
Center for Social Development, Social Policy Institute Announce Strategic Integration
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Recent Publications
Savings Incentives and the SECURE 2.0 Act: New Evidence on Employer-Sponsored Emergency Savings Accounts and the Saver’s Match
Matching Student-Debt Payments with Retirement Contributions Has High Appeal for Low-Wage Workers: Implications for SECURE 2.0
Retirement Plan Access Among Low-Wage Workers in 2024: Implications for SECURE 2.0
Auto-Enrollment, Auto-Escalation, and the Need for Retirement Plan Portability: Implications for SECURE 2.0
Access to and Satisfaction with the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program: Differences Across Race, Ethnicity, Income, and Urbanicity among Missouri Residents
Featured Events
How Employers Are Tackling Mobility Blockers in Public Benefit Programs
Standing Up for Democracy: Studies of Democratic Renewal in Korea
The Federal Budget and Social Policy: Challenges, Goals, and Proposals
Bridging Data Divides: Collaborating for Impact
New Insights on SECURE 2.0: Charting the Path for Retirement Policy Opportunities
Featured Projects
Retirement with Dignity
Asset building
Building on the Workforce Economic Inclusion and Mobility Project (2023–2025) and with support from the Prudential Foundation, the Retirement with Dignity Project seeks to examine the potential for and challenges associated with the Secure 2.0 Act’s provisions helping lower wage workers build retirement savings via defined contribution plans and other retirement-savings programs.
SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK)
Asset Building
The SEED OK experiment, which began in 2007, is a large-scale policy test of universal, automatic, and progressive Child Development Accounts. The CDA uses the Oklahoma 529 College Savings Plan platform.
Financial Capability & Asset Building (FCAB)
Asset Building
We are building a body of evidence in financial capability, defined as both the knowledge to make optimal financial decisions and access to appropriate and beneficial financial services.