Citizen wealth : winning the campaign to save working families / Wade Rathke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rathke, Wade.

Series:

BK currents book

A BK currents book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home ownership--United States.

Home ownership.

United States.

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Physical Description:

xiii, 199 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2009]

Summary:

Helping Millions Achieve the American Dream

From the founder of ACORN, the nation's largest grassroots community organization, comes this hard-hitting blueprint for helping working families establish a solid foundation of income and assets that equals true economic security-what Wade Rathke calls citizen wealth. Through compelling stories from the trenches of local, state, and national campaigns, where hardscrabble wins and smart negotiating have produced positive economic change for millions, Rathke shows how activists, government, business, and working people can join together to make citizen wealth a major priority and a visible reality.

Contents:

Building a winning campaign for economic security

Home ownership through community reinvestment

Stopping foreclosures and predatory lending

Making work pay living wages

Creating wealth through worker organizations

Making earned income tax credits work for workers

Guarding tax refunds and combatting high prices

The debt trap

The "maximum eligible participation" solution

Working with corparations to create an asset climate

Business models that foster citizen wealth

Bringing citizens into the wealth-building process

The future of citizen wealth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781576758625

1576758621

OCLC:

263978162