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Introduction, |
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PART I. Context |
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1. Assets and Public Policy, |
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2. The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History, |
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20 | (22) |
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3. Asset-Based Policy in Historical and International Perspective, |
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42 | (19) |
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PART II. Asset Holding and Well-Being |
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4. Who Are the Asset Poor? Levels, Trends, and Composition, 1983-1998, |
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61 | (26) |
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Robert Haveman and Edward N. Wolff |
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5. Family Matters: Kin Networks and Asset Accumulation, |
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87 | (25) |
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Ngina Chiteji and Darrick Hamilton |
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6. Family Assets and School Access: Race and Class in the Structuring of Educational Opportunity, |
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112 | (16) |
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Thomas M. Shapiro and Heather Beth Johnson |
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7. Home Ownership and Youth Well-Being, |
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128 | (21) |
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Edward Scanlon and Deborah Adams |
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PART III. Saving and Asset Accumulation among the Poor |
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8. Reaching Out to the Unbanked, |
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149 | (18) |
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9. Linking Tax Refunds and Low-Cost Bank Accounts to Bank the Unbanked, |
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167 | (18) |
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Sondra G. Beverly, Jennifer Tescher, Jennifer L. Romich, and David Marzahl |
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10. Assets and the Poor: Evidence from Individual Development Accounts, |
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185 | (31) |
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Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Min Zhan, Sondra G. Beverly, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss |
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11. The Impacts of IDA Programs on Family Savings and Asset Holdings, |
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Michael A. Stegman and Robert Faris |
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PART IV. Toward an Inclusive Asset-Building Policy |
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12. Going to Scale: Principles and Policy Options for an Inclusive Asset-Building Policy, |
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Robert E. Friedman and Ray Boshara |
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13. Toward Progressive Pensions: A Summary of the U.S. Pension System and Proposals for Reform, |
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262 | (19) |
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Peter Orszag and Robert Greenstein |
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14. The Thrift Savings Plan Experience: Implications for a Universal Asset Account Initiative, |
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281 | (22) |
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15. The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing and Implementing a System of Savings Accounts for Children, |
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303 | (20) |
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16. The EITC and USAs/IDAs: Maybe a Marriage Made in Heaven?, |
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323 | (28) |
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PART V. Assessment and Directions |
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17. Critical Questions in Asset-Based Policy, |
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351 | (9) |
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18. Inclusion in Asset Building: Directions for Theory and Research, |
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360 | (33) |
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Michael Sherraden, Edward Scanlon, Deborah Adams, Sondra G. Beverly, and Mark Schreiner |
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Conclusion, |
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Index, |
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