This week, we are delighted to have conversations with Colleen Davis, the State Treasurer of Delaware, and Ted Griffith, the Program Director of Delaware EARNS. This dynamic duo are bringing to life the nation’s next Auto IRA program and the first such retirement security opportunity for the great state of Delaware. We can’t wait to see the unique thinking they bring to the space. Cool news ahead.

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.

Our friend Tyler Bond is an accomplished advocate and researcher with experience working for political campaigns, advocacy organizations, think tanks, and on Capitol Hill. His professional focus is retirement, specifically, and economic policy, broadly. His writing has been featured in outlets such as The Hill, MarketWatch, and the Huffington Post and he has been quoted in various outlets including Barron's and The Financial Times … and Retirement Security Matters.