Because America is breaking,
and we can feel it
The country is more bitterly divided than at any point in modern memory. Trust in institutions is collapsing. Anger is rising. People are retreating into extremes.
A lot of this gets blamed on politics.
But underneath it is something simpler to identify yet harder to fix:
Persistent poverty and capital deprivation.
When people spend generations without ownership—without assets, without savings, without a path forward—everything else frays. Families destabilize. Communities lose hope. Lost souls turn to drugs. Resentment hardens. Politics turns toxic.
We’ve spent decades trying to manage these symptoms through government programs. Philanthropies have spent over a century applying bandaids. We haven’t addressed the root.
Now we finally have a chance to.
The new Invest America | Trump Accounts give every child an investment account at birth. That matters, because compounding capital is one of the few forces powerful enough to break generational poverty—if people can actually access it early and consistently.
We’re making sure these accounts don’t follow the same path as Health Savings Accounts or college 529s—great ideas that ended up being used mostly by higher-income families, while lower-income households were left out because they never had spare cash, guidance, or trust in the system.
If we can reverse generational poverty and capital deprivation in places where it has been most entrenched—
Appalachia
the Lakota territories
the Mississippi Delta
and South Texas
then we can do it anywhere.
These regions become a national laboratory:
Proof that ownership changes behavior, restores trust, and stabilizes communities.
That’s how you build a more prosperous country.
That’s how you lower the temperature.
And that’s how you give the next generation a reason to believe the system works.
America’s 250th birthday isn’t just a celebration.
It’s an opportunity for capitalism to broaden its reach.
