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"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. 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 American out of poverty. Miller-Adams expands the traditional concept of assets to encompass a range of tools, experiences, resources, and support systems that are necessary if asset building is to serve as an effective anti-poverty strategy. She identifies four types of assets that can represent sources of wealth for low-income individuals and communities: economic, human, social, and natural assets. Owning Up also examines five organizations at the forefront of building assets for the poor. Miller-Adams identifies them as models to be emulated elsewhere." Publisher (barnesandnoble.com)
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0815706197
Michelle Miller-Adams
2002 Brookings Institution Press
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