This brief discusses the savings penalties in public assistance programs in the United States, also known as asset limits, and that actions that can be taken to eliminate these limits and the barriers towards building savings for families living on low...

The findings of the 2016 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard presented here confirm the gravity of the challenges of growing financial insecurity and inequality. To build the opportunity economy we want and need, the status quo is no longer acceptable. Instead, we need to embrace policy...