Owning up : poverty, assets, and the American dream / Michelle Miller-Adams.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Miller-Adams, Michelle, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Poverty--Government policy--United States.
• Poor--United States--Finance, Personal.
• Saving and investment--Government policy--United States.
• Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.
• Economic assistance, Domestic.
• Welfare recipients.
• Economic conditions.
• Saving and investment--Government policy.
• Saving and investment.
• Poor.
• Finance, Personal.
• Poverty--Government policy.
• Poverty.
• United States.
• Public welfare--United States.
• Public welfare.
• Welfare recipients--United States--Economic conditions.
• United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2002]

Summary:

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. She expands the traditional concept of assets to encompass four types of resources that can represent sources of wealth for low-income individuals and communities -- economic, human, social, and natural assets. She identifies a range of tools, experience, and support systems that are necessary if asset building is to serve as an important component of a new anti-poverty strategy. Owning Up also examines five organizations at the forefront of building assets for the poor. Their stories are told through the eyes of individuals whose lives they have helped transform.

Contents:

• Building assets
• Coming home
• On common ground
• Work with a future
• Making it her business
• Can the poor save?
• Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.

ISBN:

• 0815706200
• 0815706197

OCLC:

49690821