Claire Cain Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
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Sure.
So the general idea is that babies and children can start investing in the stock market.
And babies born during Trump's second term get $1,000 from the federal government to do so.
The idea is actually decades old.
It's trying to address the fact that many Americans aren't in the stock market at all.
And so they're missing out on that wealth building.
And it contributes to a wealth gap between, you know, kids from poor and rich families, kids from Black and Latino families and white families.
And so the general idea is try to shrink that to give everyone a chance to invest starting when they're really young so that they have more time for that investment to compound and grow.
That's right.
All they need to do is open a Trump account.
Sure.
So this idea started several decades ago, and there are a few states that have experimented with it.
Two examples are Oklahoma, where some kids, as part of an experiment, have received money to invest in the stock market, and Maine, where a philanthropist has pledged to give every baby born a certain amount of money to invest in the stock market.
Some cities have also done this, and they're mostly going into college savings accounts, like 529s.
Hmm.
And the idea, interestingly to me, has bipartisan support.
Both Democrats and Republicans have supported the general idea.
They might disagree on some of the specifics of how the policy works.
But the idea of allowing children to start investing in the stock market when they're young appeals to both parties.
And it's one that people have been trying to get in to the mainstream for decades now.
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