Guest Blog: The 2012 Assets and Opportunities Scorecard: Oklahoma Ranks 33rd for Financial Stability of Residents

As part of a new project at CAP, each month we will be featuring a guest blogger from across the agency.  Amy Amatucci, Senior Fund Development Specialist, is our sixth blogger. Last month the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and OK Policy co-released the 2012 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, which shows that more than one in four [...]

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President Calls for Tax Savings Pioneered by CAP

I was pleased to see recent news that President Obama used his weekly address to announce new initiatives to promote savings. (White House, New York Times, New America Foundation). Among other ideas, he charged the IRS with implementing a checkbox on tax returns that would allow you to save a portion of your refund in [...]

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Budget Blogging

President Obama released his budget for the 2010 fiscal year. The document is a kind of roadmap for the President’s initiatives over the next several years, but he’s left lots of room to Congress to fill in details. Anyway, I thought I’d put up some topics of potential interest to our readers: Early Childhood – [...]

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Microloans and Milestones

Last week the Tulsa World was one of many papers to publish a press release from Sam Daley-Harris, director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, celebrating more than 106 million microloans in 2007.  In 1997 when a goal was set to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families with microloans by 2005, it had to be [...]

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Behavior Change, One Cup of Coffee at a Time

One thing we’re interested in at the Tulsa Initiative is how to get people to change their behaviors, borrowing heavily from ideas in psychology and behavioral economics (see Nudge or the work of two of our colleagues on the Tulsa Children’s Project, Michael Barr and Sendhil Mullainathan). So I like to keep my eyes on [...]

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