Assets and the Poor: New American Welfare Policy by Neil Gilbert, Michael Sherraden

Assets and the Poor: New American Welfare Policy

Neil Gilbert, Michael Sherraden

344 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction politics medium-paced
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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 thro...

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