| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Revisions of papers presented at a symposium held at Washington University in St. Louis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Assets and public policy / Michael Sherraden -- The Homestead act : a major asset-building policy in American history / Trina Williams Shanks -- Asset-based policy in historical and international perspective / James Midgley -- Who are the asset poor? Levels, trends, and composition, 1983-1998 / Robert Haveman and Edward N. Wolff -- Family matters : kin networks and asset accumulation / Ngina Chiteji and Darrick Hamilton -- Family assets and school access : race and class in the structuring of educational opportunity / Thomas M. Shapiro and Heather Beth Johnson -- Home ownership and youth well-being / Edward Scanlon and Deborah Adams -- Reaching out to the unbanked / John P. Caskey -- Linking tax refunds and low-cost bank accounts to bank the unbanked / Sondra G. Beverly [and others] -- Assets and the poor : evidence from individual development accounts / Mark Schreiner [and others] -- The impacts of IDA programs on family savings and asset holdings / Michael A. Stegman and Robert Faris -- Going to scale : principles and policy options for an inclusive asset-building policy / Robert E. Friedman and Ray Boshara -- Toward progressive pensions : a summary of the U.S. pension system and proposals for reform / Peter Orszag and Robert Greenstein -- The thrift savings plan experience : implications for a universal asset account initiative / Elaine C. Rideout -- The universal piggy bank : designing and implementing a system of savings accounts for children / Fred Goldberg -- The EITC and USAs/IDAs : maybe a marriage made in heaven? / Timothy M. Smeeding -- Critical questions in asset-based policy / Jared Bernstein -- Inclusion in asset building : directions for theory and research / Michael Sherraden [and others]. |
| Summary |
The typical American household accumulates its assets in home equity and retirement accounts, both of which are subsidized through the tax system. But the poor, for the most part, do not participate in these asset accumulation policies. This book brings together scholars and experts on the topic of asset building, as this relates to public policy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Social policy -- 1993- -- Congresses.
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United States. |
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Social policy. |
| Chronological Term |
1993- |
| Subject |
Poor -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses.
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Poor -- Government policy. |
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Saving and investment -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses.
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Saving and investment -- Government policy. |
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Saving and investment. |
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Marginality, Social -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Assets (Accounting) -- Congresses.
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Assets (Accounting) |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1993 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Conference proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Sherraden, Michael W. (Michael Wayne), 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Inclusion in the American dream. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0195168194 0195168208 (DLC) 2004063563 (OCoLC)57010176 |
| ISBN |
1423746031 (electronic book) |
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9781423746034 (electronic book) |
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1433700484 |
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9781433700484 |
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9780195168204 (Paper) |
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0195168208 (Paper) |
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9780195168198 (Cloth) |
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0195168194 (Cloth) |
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1280560363 |
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9781280560361 |
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