Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) may be the best resource for low-income Americans that you have never heard of. They are matching savings accounts that are targeted to promote savings in ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon Housing and Community Services, in partnership with Neighborhood Partnerships, this week announced $11.5 million in funding to support the Individual Development Account ...

Individual development accounts, a program that seems to be gaining traction at our Legislature, is a way to help lower-income people build self-sufficiency. The Monday evening event was billed as a ...

With Congress debating more pressing matters, a bill that would give tax breaks to banks offering individual development accounts to low-income consumers has languished in a Senate committee for ...

ALMOST A DECADE after credit unions, community development groups, banks and other organizations started opening Individual Development Accounts to give struggling Americans a boost, the results from ...

Lawrence Iriate ran out of financial aid a semester short of college graduation. But the Newark, Calif., artist had an ace in the hole--an Individual Development Account, which is a matched savings ...