Owning Up
Subtitle: Poverty, Assets, and the American Dream
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780815706199
Subjects: Microeconomics; Poverty; Sociology; Poor; General; Business & Economics; Saving and investment; Business/Economics; USA; Public Policy - Social Policy; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Finance, Personal; United States; Money & Monetary Policy; Government policy
First sentence: As the twentieth century drew to a close, the economic news in the United States could not have been better.
Description: "Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets. Even when they are getting by, they lack many of the resources - tangible and intangible - that provide middle-class Americans with a sense of security, stability, and a stake in the future.

In Owning Up, Michelle Miller-Adams demonstrates how asset-building programs, used in combination with traditional income-based support, can be an effective means for helping millions of Americans out of poverty."--BOOK JACKET.