The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and Its Impact on Social Policy

The economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.The book considers a full range of data which considers how this recent experience has impacted households, providing a thorough and contemporary treatment of how the assets perspective has prompted changes within social policy.

Author: R. Cramer, T. Shanks
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/06/2014
Pages: 299
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781137388278

About the Author
Rachel Black, New America Foundation, USA William Elliott III, New America Foundation, USA Devin Fergus, The Ohio State University, USA Allison Freeman, University of North Carolina, USA Terri Friedline, University of Kansas, USA Clinton Key, The Pew Charitable Trust, USA Tatjana Meschede, Brandeis University, USA Sam Osoro, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, USA Janneke Ratcliffe, University of North Carolina, USA Carolina Reid, University of California at Berkeley, USA David Rothstein, Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland, USA Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis University, USA Michael Serraden, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Piyush Tantia, Ideas42, USA Shannon White, Ideas42, USA Josh Wright, Ideas42, USA