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What are baby bonds? Here’s what to know about the CT program

CT’s baby bonds programs provides eligible children on HUSKY with money in a publicly funded tax-free account. Here’s what to know.

For proponents of baby bonds in Connecticut, the ‘Trump accounts’ are an ineffective way to address wealth disparities.

Through a new pilot program, advocates hope to take another nation-leading step in CT’s effort to create wealth in marginalized communities.

Stakeholders and CT officials discussed the first-in-the-nation program, and how it may be planting the seeds of a national movement.

CT hopes the promise of a baby bond when the child reaches 18 can make a difference in how the child is raised and sees the future.

Each of the 7,810 babies to born to CT mothers on Medicaid in the last half of 2023 are potential beneficiaries of a $3,200 “baby bond.”

State treasurer Erick Russell hopes to rescue from political limbo a program advocates call crucial to stemming CT’s economic inequality.

Connecticut was nationally lauded for its passage of a law that would implement a baby bonds program. Here’s how the program never got funded.