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Asset Building and Low-income Families
Signe-Mary McKernanMichael Wayne Sherraden
出版The Urban Insitute, 2008
主題Business & Economics / Banks & BankingBusiness & Economics / Personal Finance / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSocial Science / Poverty & Homelessness
ISBN08776675439780877667544
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Lg-94eiWTmIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses. And though a lack of resources leaves such families vulnerable, income-support programs are often closed to those with a bit of savings or even a car. Considering welfare-to-work reforms, the increasingly advanced skill demands of the American workforce, and our stretched Social Security system, such an approach is inadequate to lift families out of poverty. Asset-based policies--allowing or even helping low-income families build wealth--are an increasingly popular strategy to facilitate financial stability.