Good friends introduce you to good people. This week, we chat with Professor Keith Weigelt, thanks to an introduction from DCIIA’s Dominika Turkcan. Sometimes when you’re walking to work, you see something you can do something about. In this case, it involves money – and intergenerational wealth. Not all of us would start a financial empowerment program if we saw racial wealth inequality, but one man did. Here’s how it’s going.

Spring has arrived, bringing warmer days, fresh blooms, and a sense of renewal. It’s the season of flowers, Easter eggs, spring cleaning, and new beginnings—and a great time to dive into the latest in retirement savings innovation. This week, Mark Iwry takes a future-focused look at SECURE 2.0, we share fresh numbers from the states, key updates from Maine, Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico, Hot Sauce and cool finds, and Pix of the Week. Let’s get started!

It’s now been over three years since the first workers started saving through state-sponsored retirement plans, and because states took an open approach and provided access for researchers to do their important work, we’ve seen a steady stream of extremely interesting findings and reports come out to help answer some of the biggest questions in the retirement policy world.