What it's worth
Subtitle: strengthening the financial future of families, communities and the nation
By: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco & Coporation for Enterprise Development
Contributors: Coporation for Enterprise Development
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco & Coporation for Enterprise Development; Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780692531709
Subjects: Public Finance; Evaluation; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Economic history
Description: The American economy is only as strong as the American household. In communities across the country, families are struggling to thrive. Learn what we can collectively do to tackle poverty and put more families on the path to financial well-being. A new book published by the San Francisco Fed in partnership with CFED, What It's Worth: Strengthening the Financial Future of Families, Communities and the Nation, provides a 360-degree view of the financial problems and challenges millions of American households face. The book highlights the enormous creativity and innovation underway to improve financial well-being and provides concrete ways that nearly all sectors of society can implement proven and evolving solutions.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Janet L. Yellen; title: Section I. Where we are: understanding the financial lives of America's households; title: How the road to financial security is paved with financial capability / Andrea Levere, Leigh Tivol; title: The future of building wealth: can financial capability overcome demographic destiny? / Ray Boshara; title: The real financial lives of Americans / Jennifer Tescher, Rachel Schneider; title: Section II. Why financial well-being matters for all the economy, the financial services system and community; title: Financial vulnerability is a problem: an economist's view / Jared Bernstein; title: We are in this together: bipartisan solutions to preserve the American dream / Phil English, Jeremie Greer; title: Reestablishing trust: an essential first step for financial institutions / Cathie Mahon; title: Consumer protection drives financial health / Raj Date; title: Race, place, and financial security: building equitable communities of opportunity / Angela Glover Blackwell; title: Stable housing, stable families: thinking beyond homeownership / Rick Lazio; title: Starting at home: housing-based approaches to financial stability / Paul Weech; title: Employment and business; title: Making work pay: building financial health improves employment outcomes / Michael Rubinger; title: Thinking outside the 401(k): employer-sponsored financial health solutions / Regis Mulot; title: Empowering entrepreneurs, strengthening communities / Janie Barrera; title: Health and social services; title: Louisville's "Culture of Compassion": a model for community-based financial empowerment / Greg Fischer; title: Financial health is public health / Jason Q. Purnell; title: Treating financial well-being as a public health issue: lessons from Delaware / Rita Landgraf; title: Beyond financial education: supporting positive financial behaviors through financial coaching / J. Michael Collins; title: Breaking the cycle of mass incarceration: a strategy for investing in individuals, families and communities / Vivian D. Nixon, Susan Sturm; title: Ending "welfare as we know it": redesigning public assistance through the lens of financial health and economic mobility / Reggie Bicha, Keri Batchelder; title: Education; title: Promoting financial health through higher education / Sarah Bloom Raskin; title: A lifecycle approach to putting higher education within reach / Martha J. Kanter; title: When colleges get it right, students succeed / Regina Stanback Stroud; title: Section III. Who is being affected? demographics and financial health; title: Wealth and generations / Phillip Longman; title: African American economic inequality: a twenty-first century challenge / Dedrick Asante-Muhammad; title: Latinos in the financial shadows / José Quiñonez; title: The Lakota funds story: how Indian Country is building financial capability / Elsie Meeks; title: Financial insecurity in Asian American Pacific Islander communities: an untold story of racial wealth inequality / Lisa Hasegawa, Jane Duong; title: Women and wealth: how to build it / Heidi I. Hartmann; title: From impulse control to interest rates: building financial capability in children and youth / Elizabeth Odders-White, Charles Kalish; title: The upside of aging: maximizing wisdom in financial decision making / Ted Beck; title: Section IV. What to do next: strengthening the financial future; title: What it's worth: building bridges to financial health and well-being / Ellen Seidman; title: So what? keeping our eyes on the prize / Brandee McHale; title: Closing the financial capability gap: a call to action for private markets / Asheesh Advani; title: Toward productive research agendas in financial inclusion, security, and development / Michael Sherraden, Margaret S. Sherraden; title: Toward a new business model: strengthening families helps to strengthen communities and the nation / Laura Choi, David Erickson; title: Building the opportunity economy / Robert Friedman.