Asset Building and Low-Income Families

We've always understood that the real antipoverty and growth strategy is to build up people's assets��heir financial capital, knowledge, and ability to discern. But, then, few of our policies get directed that way. Signe-Mary McKernan and Michael Sherraden are two of the nation's leaders in asset policy and research, and their judgment and wisdom��s well as that of the coauthors they have recruited��re shown in this outstanding volume.