The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy

by R. Cramer, T. Shanks

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137388278
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	03/06/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy; Reid Cramer and Trina R. Williams Shanks 2. Transformation of Anti-Poverty Policies and Programs; Trina R. Williams Shanks 3. The Finances of Typical Households after the Great Recession; Clinton Key 4. Financial Fracking in the Land of the Fee, 1980-2008; Devin Fergus 5. The Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Why Wealth is Not Color Blind; Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede, and Sam Osoro 6. The Promises and Pitfalls of Homeownership; Carolina Reid 7. Setting the Record Straight on Affordable Homeownership; Allison Freeman and Janneke Ratcliffe 8. A Behavioral Economics Perspective on Innovations in Savings Programs; Piyush Tantia, Shannon White, and Josh Wright 9. Solving the Paradox of High College Expectations: The Role of Children's Savings Accounts; William Elliott III 10. Extending Savings Accounts to Young People: Lessons from Two Decades of Asset Building; Terri Friedline 11. Making Tax Time the Financial Management Moment; David Rothstein and Rachel Black 12. Foundations of an Asset-Based Social Policy Agenda; Reid Cramer 13. Asset Building Research and Policy: Pathways, Progress, and Potential of a Social Innovation; Michael Sherraden