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.

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Charismatic activist and chief organizer for ACORN (the nation's largest grassroots community organization, with more than 400,000 low- and moderate-income family members), Wade Rathke reveals how building citizen-wealth using tactics that benefit both the poor and the institutions (like banks) is the key to combating poverty

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612299681

9781282299689

1282299689

9781576758748

1576758745

OCLC:

449520860