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Doorway to Dreams

New IRS Checkbox Makes Impulse Savings as Easy as Impulse Spending

The figures are in. The new checkbox that appeared on the IRS tax form for the first time this year allowing taxpayers to use their refund to buy bonds has been a success.  As of April 17, 2010, over 18,000 taxpayers had checked that little box and saved an impressive $8 million.

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Grants

• Trustees of Boston College

  for use by its Center for Financial Literacy in support of its Withholding-to-Debt-Reduction Pilot Program, which will develop and test a...
  
  http://www.bc.edu/
  Location: Chestnut Hill, MA
  Initiative: American Workers
  Region Served: Massachusetts, United States
  TERM of the Grant: 2/1/2010 – 1/31/2011
  Amount: $88,000
   

• New America Foundation

  toward the costs of its "Next Social Contract Initiative," an integrated program of research, meetings, and publications designed to...
  
  http://www.newamerica.net
  Location: Washington, DC
  Initiative: American Workers
  Region Served: United States
  TERM of the Grant: 1/1/2010 – 12/31/2010
  Amount: $700,000
   

• Yale University

  for use by its Institution for Social and Policy Studies in support of follow-on analyses of the Rockefeller Economic Security Index...
  
  http://www.yale.edu/
  Location: New Haven, CT
  Initiative: American Workers
  Region Served: United States
  TERM of the Grant: 1/1/2010 – 8/31/2011
  Amount: $479,600
   

• National Partnership for Women and Families, Inc.

  toward the costs of its Paid Sick Days Initiative, which seeks to increase women and families' economic security by promoting basic labor...
  
  http://www.nationalpartnership.org
  Location: Washington, DC
  Initiative: American Workers
  Region Served: United States
  TERM of the Grant: 11/1/2009 – 10/31/2010
  Amount: $165,000
   

• Fund for the City of New York, Inc.

  for use by its Center for Court Innovation in support of research and planning for a new juvenile justice reform center in New York State...
  
  http://www.fcny.org/
  Location: New York, NY
  Initiative: American Workers
  Region Served: New York
  TERM of the Grant: 12/1/2009 – 6/30/2010
  Amount: $60,000