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On October 4, 2012, the Asset Building Program submitted comments to the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability (PACFC) providing insights on motivations and challenges employers face when implementing financial capability programming in the workplace and recommendations for the draft framework presented by the PACFC.

On Friday, September 28, 2012, Pamela Chan and Eric Tyler presented an app design to support lower-income families in managing their personal finances and connecting with financially stabilizing public benefits, community resources, and financial services called MOOLAH (Make Opportunities Open by Leveraging Asset Here). The presentation was part of the MyMoneyAppUp Challenge, a competition hosted by the US Treasury in conjunction with

Washington, D.C. — An idea for a mobile application that would help low-income families with their finances — formulated by two New America analysts — received an award today from the U.S. Department of Treasury as a part of its MyMoneyAppUp Challenge, which solicited the best ideas and designs for mobile applications to help Americans with their finances.

Yesterday, the FDIC released a new report detailing the results of the 2011 Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (“Households” Survey). The first survey was done back in 2009. The FDIC is required by legislative mandate to survey banks’ efforts to serve the unbanked and will continue doing the Households survey every two years. Key findings from the report, as summarized by the FDIC, are:

• 8.2 percent of U.S.

On July 24, 2012, the New America Foundation and the National Consumer Law Center jointly submitted a comment to the CFPB in response to their request for feedback on procedural guidelines proposed by the CFPB to govern the process by which the agency will assume supervisory authority over nonbanks it has reason to believe pose a risk to consumers.

Senior Policy Analyst Pamela Chan spoke at the Grassroots and Groundwork Conference on June 7, 2012 about the AutoSave Pilot. AutoSave is a unique non-retirement savings plan that automatically diverts post-tax wages – through payroll deduction – into a high-quality and low-cost savings account, targeted to expand opportunities for low-income workers to build their personal assets. Once initiated, savings deposits are automatic and occur each pay period.

On March 26, 2012, Senior Policy Analyst Pamela Chan spoke on a panel at the American Payroll Association Capital Summit entitled Promoting Paycards and Direct Deposit. Her presentation, The AutoSave Pilot: Automating Savings for Workers by Linking Savings Products to Direct Deposit, is available for download or to the right, under Related Files.

The meaning of Russian President Vladimir Putin's third term and updates on immigration policy and trends are topics for discussion in this week’s podcast.  Host Pamela Chan is joined by Schwartz Fellows Steve Levine and Tamar Jacoby.  

To learn more about today’s topics, check out:

Steve’s blog, The Oil and the Glory (http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/ ) and book, Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia (http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Labyrinth-Spies-Murder-Russia/dp/0812978412)

The short fallings of US internet policy and national security rhetoric in a world where information and technological developments are more easily collected and shared around the world are topics for this week’s episode of The Sidebar.  Host Pamela Chan is joined by Thomas Gideon from the Open Technology Initiative and Konstantin Kakaes from the Schwartz Fellows Program. 

The U.S. Budget and Community WiFi are topics for discussion this week, as host Pamela Chan is joined by Preston Rhea and Jason Peuquet.

Liza Mundy discusses her new book, "The Richer Sex" and Maggie Severns talks about whether or not bilingual speakers are smarter. Pamela Chan hosts.

This week, host Pamela Chan talks with Schwartz Fellow Brigid Schulte and Global Assets Project Research Associate Nicole Tosh to mark International Women’s Day by discussing girl-centered poverty reduction programs and gender equality at work and at home.

Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, is writing a book on the struggle of working mothers to manage the scarcest of all resources – time – in balancing work, family and their own well-being.