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fromFortune
3 months ago

'Trump Accounts' can earn your kid $270,000 by age 18. Here's how the numbers breakdown | Fortune

Trump's 'baby bond' program allows parents to contribute up to $5,000 annually to children's investment accounts, with the Treasury adding $1,000 per eligible newborn, potentially accumulating $162,000 to $674,000 by age 18.
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fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

Trump is scrambling to sell an affordability agenda - and borrowing ideas from an unlikely place

President Trump is adopting progressive economic proposals—buyback bans, credit-card caps, baby bonds—and shifting toward interventionist, affordability-focused policies.
fromIntelligencer
5 months ago

Who Will Benefit From the New 'Trump Accounts' for Kids?

It's well-known that Donald Trump loves to send taxpayer dollars directly to voters with packaging intended to make the bounty seem like a gift from his own self. So it's not surprising that his signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act had a provision creating something called "Trump Accounts" that would be set up for all American children born between 2025 and 2028 with a $1,000 "seed deposit" from the federal government. A nice birthday gift for these kids, right?
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