Title Inclusion in the American dream : assets, poverty, and public policy / [edited by] Michael Sherraden

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages) : illustrations 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 Notes Revisions of papers presented at a symposium held at Washington University in St. Louis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Poor -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses Saving and investment -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses Marginality, Social -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses Assets (Accounting) -- Congresses POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services. Assets (Accounting) Marginality, Social -- Prevention Poor -- Government policy Saving and investment -- Government policy Social policy SUBJECT United States -- Social policy -- 1993- -- Congresses Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Sherraden, Michael W. (Michael Wayne), 1948- ISBN 1423746031 9781423746034 1433700484 9781433700484 9780195168204 0195168208 9780195168198 0195168194 1280560363 9781280560361 9786610560363 6610560366 0195347099 9780195347098

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