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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Urban Institute Event on Assets for Economic Security

A NEW SAFETY NET FOR WORKING FAMILIES: ASSETS FOR ECONOMIC SECURITY Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:00–10:30 a.m. ET / 8:00-9:30 a.m. CT To sign up for the audio webcast visit http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=54377. Panelists: Greg Acs, principal research associate, Income and Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute Leonard Burman, senior fellow, Urban Institute, and director, Tax Policy Center [...]

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A Primer on the President-elect

No matter what your politics, you’ve got to admit that the times are a-changin’! I thought since it’s official I’d post up a few links on President-elect Obama’s positions/plans on topics of TI interest: Children and Family: see the campaign page and a post on Early Ed Watch. In a nutshell, the Obama administration intends [...]

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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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