America can offer services, help and protection, but real freedom means being able to make independent choices about your own future property. Ownership helps make that possible. When they turn 18, foster youth will be able to access the assets they own through Fostering the Future accounts. This will give them a foundation for independence, confidence and opportunity for fostering the future. Youth empowerment comes through ownership. This includes ownership of knowledge through education and now ownership through savings and investment accounts. (28:04–28:13)
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Asserts that foster youth can access their Fostering the Future accounts at age 18.
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