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Why children's savings accounts should be America's next wealth transfer program

  • Written by William Elliott III, Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
New special savings and investment accounts could help pave the way to college for America's poor and middle class.Shutterstock.com

At a time of great wealth inequality and dramatically unequal chances between the rich and the poor of getting a college education, there is perhaps no better time for a new wealth transfer initiative.

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