Financial Security Program Hosts Invest America in a Public Dialogue: Early Wealth Building Accounts
Not enough Americans are invested in the economy, and many are acutely disconnected from the asset building tools that create wealth. How can we ensure that everyone fully participates in the upside of America? One solution is investing in young people through early wealth building accounts.
The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program hosted this virtual discussion to highlight new research from Invest America on the the growing and diversifying support early wealth building accounts. Speakers Kevin Hassett and Robert Shapiro off insights into how investment accounts provided at birth can increase economic opportunity for young people across America via a meaningful ownership stake in the economy.
Speakers:
Ray Boshara, Senior Policy Advisor for the Center for Social Development and Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program.
Kevin Hassett, Managing Director at the Milken Institute and the Brent R. Nicklas Distinguished Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Robert Shapiro, Founder of Sonecon and Senior Advisor at the Milken Institute.