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Time Survey: Gauging Americans’ perceptions regarding their economic security
Time Survey: Gauging Americans’ perceptions regarding their economic security
The Rockefeller Foundation’s $70 million CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICAN WORKERS supports the development of new rules and tools for the 21st century economy through innovative products and policies to increase economic security within the U.S. workforce, particularly among poor and vulnerable workers.
› NY Times story
Why do 78 percent of Americans believe we need a new social contract? Time has released the landmark Rockefeller Foundation/Time Survey, a wide-ranging gauge of Americans’ perceptions regarding their economic security. This groundbreaking poll of 2,008 Americans highlights potential paths for resolving the current economic crisis.
Time coverage | Executive summary | Press release | Read more
Story of the Week 11/13/08
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The Rockefeller Foundation has funded Public Radio International (PRI) to expand coverage and increase awareness of economic security in the American workforce.
Campaign Objectives
- Develop portable, affordable products that provide adequate health coverage, savings opportunities and retirement security to poor and vulnerable workers
- Ascertain the extent to which economic security is increasing or decreasing within the United States and how this insecurity affects different parts of the population
- Frame economic security as a universal problem that affects all working Americans, while advancing solutions that intentionally and effectively serve poor and vulnerable populations
- Identify and publicize the fiscal trade-offs and distributional consequences of current and proposed policies that target economic security within the U.S. workforce
- Advance policy proposals that will increase economic security within the U.S. workforce.
Campaign News
Effort Seeks New Safety Net for Workers
July 31, 2008; The New York Times
...the Rockefeller Foundation has begun a $70 million effort to help build a new social safety net...
NASI Innovation Awards:
Stronger Social Security for the Vulnerable
July 23, 2008; Press release
Twelve policy scholars win grants to generate options for the benefit of groups of low-paid workers, elderly widows, disabled workers and others.
Recent Videos
Video from Doorways to Dreams: A 'new' tool to boost savings for low-income workers
The Rockefeller Foundation is funding D2D to conduct a 32-site demonstration at tax preparation sites in 2008 to demonstrate demand for savings bonds among low- or middle-income filers. Savings bonds are credible, accessible and liquid, have low minimums and no fees. They also offer higher returns than bank accounts and other financial products with similar levels of risk, making them ideal savings instruments for low-income workers and families.
Freelancers Union
The Rockefeller Foundation is funding the Freelancers Union to develop an affordable health insurance product and a retirement savings plan for independent workers in New York who lack access to employer-based coverage. The Freelancer’s Union health insurance product will provide portable, reasonably priced health insurance coverage to the independent workforce, focusing on low- and moderate-income workers and their families, and eventually expanding to lower income sectors such as taxi drivers and restaurant workers. The Freelancers Union will model an innovative means for insuring an increasingly mobile workforce, and will demonstrate that this insurance delivery model can be profitable, while providing needed services to New York’s low-income independent workers.
Criterion Ventures
The Rockefeller Foundation has provided funding to Criterion Ventures and its partners to analyze the growing crisis of medical debt, explore solutions, and draw up a detailed strategy to implement changes. Building on the examples of micro-credit, and student loans, Criterion Ventures will convene hospitals, patient advocacy groups, government representatives and financial service providers to develop a solution that connects people in need of capital to broader capital markets in a way that protects low- and moderate-income people.
Qvisory
The RF has funded Qvisory, a nonprofit online advocacy organization to develop and distribute health, savings, and debt products to support the economic security needs of young Americans between the ages of 18 to 34.
Towers Perrin
The Rockefeller Foundation has provided funding to Towers Perrin, a major consulting professional services firm, to undertake a four-phased gap analysis that will result in a set of product recommendations to address economic security of American workers. Towers Perrin will segment the market of low- and moderate-income workers and match these market segments against existing and possible retirement, savings, and health products.
Video from Doorways to Dreams: A 'new' tool to boost savings for low-income workers
Developing Products
Doorways to Dreams (D2D)The Rockefeller Foundation is funding D2D to conduct a 32-site demonstration at tax preparation sites in 2008 to demonstrate demand for savings bonds among low- or middle-income filers. Savings bonds are credible, accessible and liquid, have low minimums and no fees. They also offer higher returns than bank accounts and other financial products with similar levels of risk, making them ideal savings instruments for low-income workers and families.
Freelancers Union
The Rockefeller Foundation is funding the Freelancers Union to develop an affordable health insurance product and a retirement savings plan for independent workers in New York who lack access to employer-based coverage. The Freelancer’s Union health insurance product will provide portable, reasonably priced health insurance coverage to the independent workforce, focusing on low- and moderate-income workers and their families, and eventually expanding to lower income sectors such as taxi drivers and restaurant workers. The Freelancers Union will model an innovative means for insuring an increasingly mobile workforce, and will demonstrate that this insurance delivery model can be profitable, while providing needed services to New York’s low-income independent workers.
Criterion Ventures
The Rockefeller Foundation has provided funding to Criterion Ventures and its partners to analyze the growing crisis of medical debt, explore solutions, and draw up a detailed strategy to implement changes. Building on the examples of micro-credit, and student loans, Criterion Ventures will convene hospitals, patient advocacy groups, government representatives and financial service providers to develop a solution that connects people in need of capital to broader capital markets in a way that protects low- and moderate-income people.
Qvisory
The RF has funded Qvisory, a nonprofit online advocacy organization to develop and distribute health, savings, and debt products to support the economic security needs of young Americans between the ages of 18 to 34.
Towers Perrin
The Rockefeller Foundation has provided funding to Towers Perrin, a major consulting professional services firm, to undertake a four-phased gap analysis that will result in a set of product recommendations to address economic security of American workers. Towers Perrin will segment the market of low- and moderate-income workers and match these market segments against existing and possible retirement, savings, and health products.
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