In this post for the Urban Institute’s “Urban Wire” blog, Madeline Brown, Samantha Atherton, Jason Ewas, and CSD Senior Policy Advisor Ray Boshara examine a proposal to create a federal Trump Accounts initiative and the alignment of the proposed design with a set of principles for federal early life wealth-building policy endorsed by leading experts. They note that, on several details, the proposal does not align with best practices identified through research, and they offer recommendations on ways to build an effective federal early wealth-building policy.
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Citation
Brown, M., Atherton, S., Ewas, J., & Boshara, R. (2025, June 10). How “Trump Accounts” measure up to the evidence in early wealth-building policy (Urban Wire). https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/how-trump-accounts-measure-evidence-early-wealth-building-policy