Claire Cain Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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So the administration has said that because of privacy concerns, it's not able to tell us the demographics of who have opened accounts.
But the data that is out there from a variety of sources does suggest that the poorest families have not done so.
That's right.
So there are a few challenges there.
The Trump administration does emphasize that families across the income spectrum have opened accounts.
But the way that many families did it, first of all, was by checking a box on their tax returns in April.
And there are families, many families in America, who don't earn enough to pay income taxes.
That's one hurdle.
Another is the awareness.
We had a survey by Public First that looked at who has heard about these accounts and then who really knows what they are.
And it found that just 10% of the poorest families were even aware that these accounts existed.
Well, to start, these accounts are new.
And while parents have been able to sign up for them for a while, they only opened for investments on the 4th of July, so earlier this month.
And the Trump administration has been really focused on just standing up the accounts, which happened in a very short period of time.
They told me that they're now turning to outreach.
There was a Super Bowl ad.
They're putting up billboards in areas of the country that are underrepresented in signups.
They're trying to incorporate some of this into public school curriculum, into hospitals where babies are born to tell parents about them.
And so they have said that it's really a priority to reach more American families.
But the rollout has been a little bit scattered.
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