Bootstrap Capitalism

Sponsored By:
The New America Foundation
PolicyAmerica
Center for Social Development, Washington University
Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University

A key question the panelists and audience explored was, “What are the components of the next generation of anti-poverty policies in the U.S.? What roles do asset building and financial services play? What are the other components? And how can a new anti-poverty agenda move forward?

Participants

• Ray Boshara
  Director, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation
• Michael Tanner
  Cato Institute
• Peter Edelman
  Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Michael Stegman
  MacRae Professor and Chari, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina
• Max Sawicky
  Economist, Economic Policy Institute
• Floyd Flake
  Former U.S. House Representative; and Senior Pastor, The Greater Allen Cathedral, Jamaica, Queens, New York
• David Stoesz
  Director, policyAmerica
• Ernest Skinner
  Vice-President and Community Relations Director, Citibank
• Harold E. Ford Jr.
  (D-TN), U.S. House of Representatives
• J. Larry Brown
  Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
• Michael Sherraden
  Director, Center for Social Development, Washington University
• Howard Karger
  Professor of Social Policy, University of Houston
• Katy Jacob
  Senior Analyst, Center for Financial Services Innovation, Shorebank
• Dave Buchholz
  Director, Applied Research and Innovation, CFED
• Robert Kuttner
  Founding Editor, The American Prospect