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The Assets Perspective

The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy

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  1. Reid Cramer
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  2. Trina R. Williams Shanks
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. The Rise of Asset Building and Its Impact on Social Policy

    1. The Rise of Asset Building and Its Impact on Social Policy

      • Reid Cramer, Trina R. Williams Shanks
      Pages 1-10

  3. The Changing Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Evolution of Antipoverty Programs

      • Trina R. Williams Shanks
      Pages 13-31

    3. The Finances of Typical Households After the Great Recession

      • Clinton Key
      Pages 33-65

    4. Financial Fracking in the Land of the Fee, 1980–2008

      • Devin Fergus
      Pages 67-95

  4. Pathways to Asset Building

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Why Wealth Is Not Color Blind

      • Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede, Sam Osoro
      Pages 99-122

    3. The Promises and Pitfalls of Homeownership

      • Carolina Reid
      Pages 123-149

    4. Setting the Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership

      • Allison Freeman, Janneke Ratcliffe
      Pages 151-164

    5. A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Innovations in Savings Programs

      • Piyush Tantia, Shannon White, Josh Wright
      Pages 165-183

    6. Solving the Paradox of High College Expectations: The Role of Children’s Savings Accounts

      • William Elliott III
      Pages 185-201

    7. Extending Savings Accounts to Young People: Lessons from Two Decades of Asset Building

      • Terri Friedline
      Pages 203-225

    8. Making Tax Time the Financial Management Moment

      • David Rothstein, Rachel Black
      Pages 227-241

  5. Directions for the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Foundations of an Asset-Based Social Policy Agenda

      • Reid Cramer
      Pages 245-261

    3. Asset Building Research and Policy: Pathways, Progress, and Potential of a Social Innovation

      • Michael Sherraden
      Pages 263-284

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-299
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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.

About the authors

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

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