TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherraden,Michael W.
TI  - Assets and the poor: a new American welfare policy 
SN  - 9781563240669
AV  - HC110.P63 S49 1990
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Economic assistance, Domestic
KW  - United States
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Saving and investment
N1  - First published 1991 by M.E. Sharpe. -- from title-page verso; Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 315-324); The failure of welfare policy as a failure of national vision -- Income distribution and income poverty -- The state of welfare theory -- Federal welfare policy--who benefits? -- The welfare reform debate -- The name and distribution of assets -- inheritance of asset inequality -- Toward a theory of welfare based on assets -- The design of asset-based welfare policy -- Individual development accounts -- Examples, proposals, costs -- The integration of welfare policy with econimic goals of the nation -- Summary and conclusion
ER  -