Michael Sherraden

Assets and the Poor

New American Welfare Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

This work proposes a new approach to welfare: a social policy that goes beyond simple income maintenance to foster individual initiative and self-sufficiency. It argues for an asset-based policy that would create a system of saving incentives through individual development accounts (IDAs) for specific purposes, such as college education, homeownership, self-employment and retirement security. In this way, low-income Americans could gain the same opportunities that middle- and upper-income citizens have to plan ahead, set aside savings and invest in a more secure future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• 1992.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781563240669
• ISBN-10: 1563240661
• Artikelnr.: 21894647

Autorenporträt

Michael Sherraden, Neil Gilbert

Inhaltsangabe

I: Maintenance: Welfare as Income; 1: The Failure of Welfare Policy as a Failure of National Vision; 2: Income Distribution and Income Poverty; 3: The State of Welfare Theory; 4: Federal Welfare Policy-Who Benefits?; 5: The Welfare Reform Debate; II: Development: Welfare as Assets; 6: The Nature and Distribution of Assets; 7: Inheritance of Asset Inequality; 8: Toward a Theory of Welfare Based on Assets; 9: The Design of Asset-Based Welfare Policy; 10: Individual Development Accounts; 11: Examples, Proposals, Costs; 12: The Integration of Welfare Policy with Economic Goals of the Nation; 13: Summary and Conclusion

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I: Maintenance: Welfare as Income
1: The Failure of Welfare Policy as a Failure of National Vision
2: Income Distribution and Income Poverty
3: The State of Welfare Theory
4: Federal Welfare Policy-Who Benefits?
5: The Welfare Reform Debate
II: Development: Welfare as Assets
6: The Nature and Distribution of Assets
7: Inheritance of Asset Inequality
8: Toward a Theory of Welfare Based on Assets
9: The Design of Asset-Based Welfare Policy
10: Individual Development Accounts
11: Examples, Proposals, Costs
12: The Integration of Welfare Policy with Economic Goals of the Nation
13: Summary and Conclusion