Owning up : poverty, assets, and the American dream / / Michelle Miller-Adams
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| Autore: |
Miller-Adams Michelle <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Owning up : poverty, assets, and the American dream / / Michelle Miller-Adams
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.50973 |
| 362.582 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Poverty - Government policy - United States |
| Poor - United States - Finance, Personal | |
| Saving and investment - Government policy - United States | |
| Economic assistance, Domestic - United States | |
| Public welfare - United States | |
| Welfare recipients - United States - Economic conditions | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Economic conditions 1981-2001 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Building Assets; CHAPTER TWO: Coming Home; CHAPTER THREE: On Common Ground; CHAPTER FOUR: Work with a Future; CHAPTER FIVE: Making It Her Business; CHAPTER SIX: Can the Poor Save?; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This text is about assets and the difference they can make in the lives of the poor. It expands the concept of asset building to encompass a range of skills and support systems that are necessary to lift people out of poverty. It identifies four types of asset: economic, human, social and natural. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Owning up |
| ISBN: | 1-280-81267-2 |
| 9786610812677 | |
| 0-8157-0641-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828944703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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