Citizen wealth [[electronic resource] ] : winning the campaign to save working families / / Wade Rathke

• Autore: Rathke Wade
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.33/80973
• Soggetto topico: Home ownership - United States; Working class - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Citizen wealth
• ISBN: 1-282-29968-9; 9786612299681; 1-57675-874-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823493903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: BK currents book.