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  • Assets and the Poor

    New American Welfare Policy

    by Michael Sherraden ...
    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 ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Campus Power Struggle

    by Michael Sherraden ...
    Campus Power Struggle traces the explosive evolution of the student political movement from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964 to armed confrontation at Cornell in 1969. From campus conflict as a microcosm of larger political struggles for self-determination, to student concern about infringements upon personal liberties, the studies in this book provide authoritative insight into unrest on ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Can the Poor Save?

    Saving and Asset Building in Individual Development Accounts

    by Michael Sherraden ...
    Many policymakers argue that the best poverty policy not only provides cash to the poor for subsistence but also incentives and structures that encourage long-term social and economic improvement. As part of this, they make the case for Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), a new policy proposal designed to help the poor save and to build assets. This book explores IDAs to determine their ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Ending Poverty in America

    How to Restore the American Dream

    by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham, Carol Mendez Cassell, Martin Eakes, Michael Ferber, Richard B. Freeman, Jacob S. Hacker, Harry J. Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Ronald B. Mincy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin L. Oliver, Peter Orszag, Dennis K. Orthner, Hillard Pouncy, Hugh B. Price, John Karl Scholz, Ruston Seaman, Thomas M. Shapiro, Michael Sherraden, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, David Spickard, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson ...
    An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Child Development Accounts

    Toward Universality and Progressivity

    Edited by Jin Huang, Li Zou, Michael Sherraden ...
    Inclusive Child Development Accounts showcases the global context of emerging asset-building policies and programmes around Child Development Accounts.Child Development Accounts (CDAs) are subsidized accounts that enable families to accumulate assets to invest in children’s development and life goals, such as postsecondary education, homeownership, business development, and retirement security. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Inclusion in the American Dream

    Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy

    Edited by Michael Sherraden ...
    Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy. The typical American household accumulates most its assets in home equity and retirement accounts, both of which are subsidized through the tax system. But the poor, for the most part, do not participate in these asset accumulation ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility

    Edited by Marion Crain, Michael Sherraden ...
    Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s has the United States faced such a prolonged period of high unemployment and underemployment. Recovery from the "Great Recession" that began in 2008 has been slow, and is projected to remain sluggish over the next several years, while another shock to the global economy could erase the meager gains of the past months. Economic conditions remain fragile ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Civic Service Worldwide

    Impacts and Inquiry

    by Amanda Moore McBride, Michael Sherraden ...
    This comprehensive collection of the latest research and policy developments in civic service worldwide provides an informed assessment of what works and what doesn't work in the field. With contributions from some of the discipline's best-known global leaders, it presents a conceptualization and operational definition of civic service that allows for variations across nations and cultures. "Civic ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Asset-Building Policies and Innovations in Asia

    Edited by Michael Sherraden, Li Zou, Ben Hok-bun Ku, Suo Deng, Sibin Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China
    Asia has long been a testing ground for efforts to augment financial and social security by developing assets that may support individuals and households and contribute to long-term social development. Rapid growth in the number and breadth of asset-based social policies has prompted Asian scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to share lessons from current efforts and chart future directions ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Productive Aging

    Concepts and Challenges

    Edited by Nancy Morrow-Howell, James Hinterlong, Michael Sherraden ...
    Series series Gerontology
    "Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, education, and experience, idling away the last thirty years of life."—From the Foreword, by Robert N. Butler, M.D., The Mount Sinai Medical CenterOld age has been historically thought of as a period of frailty and dependence, yet studies show that with ... Read more

    $54.09 USD

  • Financial Capability and Asset Building in Vulnerable Households

    Theory and Practice

    by Margaret Sherraden, Julie Birkenmaier, J. Michael Collins ...
    Financial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining incomes. Many have not recovered from the Great Recession, when millions lost their homes and retirement savings. They are bombarded daily with vexing financial decisions: Which bills to pay? Where to cash checks? How to cover an emergency? How ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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    A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives

    by Marvin Shaffer ...
    Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values are complex and that not all consequences can be expressed in monetary terms or incorporated into ... Read more

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