Description
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.
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
