Claire Cain Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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That's right.
What the researchers have found is that even having a few hundred dollars in a college savings account makes parents talk about education differently.
It gives middle schoolers and high schoolers a college-going mindset just to know that this exists because it makes people more optimistic about the future.
And it gives kids literacy in the idea of what the stock market is.
I think a lot of people, you know, even when they're 18, are overwhelmed by the stock market, perhaps scared of it, don't really know what to do if they're offered their first chance.
And you've never invested in stocks.
You don't know what a retirement account is.
And a big piece of this that the Trump administration is pretty proud of is financial literacy education.
They're trying to get a lot of states, Oklahoma is the first one, to put financial literacy into the public school curriculum related to Trump accounts.
They have some stuff online that's aimed at teaching kids what stocks are and what investing is and why to invest.
And the hope is...
Because the earlier you invest, the more money you'll make, that this will get more people, more Americans comfortable with it and able to do it and take advantage of it.
Right, so these accounts are potentially a political win for the Trump administration and beneficial for many families in the United States.
The concern is whether the families that are opening them are necessarily the families who would benefit most.
And right now, it doesn't seem so, and the question is why.
Yeah.
So, so far, the government has said that about six and a half million children have had Trump accounts opened in their name, which is a lot of kids, but it's less than 10% of eligible kids.
That's not as much as I would expect.
Right.
And of those who can receive the $1,000, only about a quarter of them have open Trump accounts.
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