California Event: Assets and Opportunity

The New America Foundation and the Asset Policy Initiative of California, in association with Assemblymembers Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) and Ted Gaines (R-Roseville), recently launched the Bipartisan Asset Policy Forum, including a luncheon speaker series designed to educate policymakers, legislative staff and advocates on asset-building issues affecting Californians.

The next installment of this luncheon series will feature Jennifer Brooks, Policy Director at the Corporation For Enterprise Development (CFED). Ms. Brooks will discuss the state of asset building policy in California and its impact on the financial well-being of families across the state. Ms. Brooks will use the recently published 2007-2008 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard Report – which provides a comprehensive look at wealth, poverty and financial security of families in the United States – to describe the state of asset ownership and policy in California in a broader, comparative context.

Participants

• Jennifer Brooks
  Policy Director
  CFED
• Olivia Calderon
  Policy Representative, Asset Building Program
  New America Foundation