Talk:Baby bonds

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 4 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jkolli. Peer reviewers: MichelleGachelin.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:46, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Outline of Proposed Edits
There is significant room for improvement considering the amount of scholarly work and news coverage on this proposal, as well as the fact that it has been introduced as legislation in the form of the American Opportunity Accounts Act (AOAA). I plan to expand on the specifics of the program as proposed by Darity and Hamilton, as well as the version in the AOAA. The article also does not mention, but rather links to, the child trust fund (CTF) article, which discusses a somewhat similar program in the UK. There is room for the baby bonds article to be further integrated with Wikipedia’s other existing articles, and as a mechanism of reparations. Jkolli (talk) 03:39, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I would love it if you did all of the above! Keepcalmandchill (talk) 06:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Proposal for Restructuring
My planned changes are to rewrite the lead and restructure the contents as follows:

1. Background

1.1 Racial Wealth Gap (link to Wealth inequality in US and Racial Equality in US)

1.1.1 Explanations (this would include conventional explanations and Darity & Hamilton’s findings)

1.2 Reparations (link to Reparations)

2. Proposed Plans

2.1 Darity and Hamilton Proposal

2.2 American Opportunity Accounts Act

3. Implications

4. See also

There's a more detailed outline with references on my user page -- I welcome any feedback.

Jkolli (talk) 02:29, 30 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Sounds good! Keepcalmandchill (talk) 06:14, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Bob Kerrey proposal
There was a similar proposal to the baby bonds idea called KidSave, written by Senator Bob Kerrey. See [] for more information. Perhaps we could add some of the material from this and other articles (google “KidSave Bob Kerrey” to start) in order to expand the article. Jarrod Baniqued (talk) 07:37, 24 January 2021 (UTC)