Assets and the Poor
New American Welfare Policy
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-1-56324-066-9 (ISBN)
Description
This work proposes a new approach to welfare: a social policy that goes beyond simple income maintenance to foster individual initiative and self-sufficiency. It argues for an asset-based policy that would create a system of saving incentives through individual development accounts (IDAs) for specific purposes, such as college education, homeownership, self-employment and retirement security. In this way, low-income Americans could gain the same opportunities that middle- and upper-income citizens have to plan ahead, set aside savings and invest in a more secure future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
tables, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56324-066-9 (9781563240669)
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12/1990
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M.E. Sharpe
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Person
Michael Sherraden, Neil Gilbert
Content
I: Maintenance: Welfare as Income; 1: The Failure of Welfare Policy as a Failure of National Vision; 2: Income Distribution and Income Poverty; 3: The State of Welfare Theory; 4: Federal Welfare Policy-Who Benefits?; 5: The Welfare Reform Debate; II: Development: Welfare as Assets; 6: The Nature and Distribution of Assets; 7: Inheritance of Asset Inequality; 8: Toward a Theory of Welfare Based on Assets; 9: The Design of Asset-Based Welfare Policy; 10: Individual Development Accounts; 11: Examples, Proposals, Costs; 12: The Integration of Welfare Policy with Economic Goals of the Nation; 13: Summary and Conclusion