R. Cramer, T. Shanks

The Assets Perspective

The Rise of Asset Building and Its Impact on Social Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.The book considers a full range of data which considers how this recent experience has impacted households, providing a thorough and contemporary treatment of how the assets perspective has prompted changes within social policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us / Palgrave Macmillan US
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781349481965
• ISBN-10: 1349481963
• Artikelnr.: 45075911

Autorenporträt

Rachel Black, New America Foundation, USA William Elliott III, New America Foundation, USA Devin Fergus, The Ohio State University, USA Allison Freeman, University of North Carolina, USA Terri Friedline, University of Kansas, USA Clinton Key, The Pew Charitable Trust, USA Tatjana Meschede, Brandeis University, USA Sam Osoro, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, USA Janneke Ratcliffe, University of North Carolina, USA Carolina Reid, University of California at Berkeley, USA David Rothstein, Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland, USA Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis University, USA Michael Serraden, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Piyush Tantia, Ideas42, USA Shannon White, Ideas42, USA Josh Wright, Ideas42, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy; Reid Cramer
and Trina R. Williams Shanks 2. Transformation of Anti-Poverty Policies and
Programs; Trina R. Williams Shanks 3. The Finances of Typical Households
after the Great Recession; Clinton Key 4. Financial Fracking in the Land of
the Fee, 1980-2008; Devin Fergus 5. The Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Why
Wealth is Not Color Blind; Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede, and Sam Osoro
6. The Promises and Pitfalls of Homeownership; Carolina Reid 7. Setting the
Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership; Allison Freeman and Janneke
Ratcliffe 8. A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Innovations in Savings
Programs; Piyush Tantia, Shannon White, and Josh Wright 9. Solving the
Paradox of High College Expectations: The Role of Children's Savings
Accounts; William Elliott III 10. Extending Savings Accounts to Young
People: Lessons from Two Decades of Asset Building; Terri Friedline 11.
Making Tax Time the Financial Management Moment; David Rothstein and Rachel
Black 12. Foundations of an Asset-Based Social Policy Agenda; Reid Cramer
13. Asset Building Research and Policy: Pathways, Progress, and Potential
of a Social Innovation; Michael Sherraden