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Asset Building and Low Income Families - McKernan, Signe-Mary, and Sherraden, Michael
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Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses. And though a lack of resources leaves such families vulnerable, income-support programs are often closed to those with a bit of savings or even a car. Considering welfare-to-work reforms, the increasingly advanced skill demands of the American workforce, and our stretched Social Security system, such an approach is inadequate to lift families out of ...

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Asset Building and Low Income Families 2008, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Washington, DC

ISBN-13: 9780877667544

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