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Striving to Save: Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
Sherraden, Margaret Sherrard, Mcbride, Amanda Moore
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Description for Striving to Save: Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
Hardcover. Examines savings in eighty-four working families with low incomes, including fifty-nine families who participated in a program of matched savings and financial education. This book concludes with recommended public policy approaches for increasing savings in households that are striving to save. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JKS; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
This book is about the struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts. In ""Striving to Save"", Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride examine savings in eighty-four working families with low incomes, including fifty-nine families who participated in a groundbreaking program of matched savings and financial education. In-depth interviews with these families, along with savings and survey data, shed light on saving in low-income households. The book concludes with recommended public policy approaches for increasing savings in households that are striving to save.
This book is about the struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts. In ""Striving to Save"", Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride examine savings in eighty-four working families with low incomes, including fifty-nine families who participated in a groundbreaking program of matched savings and financial education. In-depth interviews with these families, along with savings and survey data, shed light on saving in low-income households. The book concludes with recommended public policy approaches for increasing savings in households that are striving to save.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472117123
SKU
V9780472117123
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99-3
About Sherraden, Margaret Sherrard, Mcbride, Amanda Moore
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden is Professor of Social Work at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Amanda Moore McBride is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Washington University, St. Louis.
Reviews for Striving to Save: Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
"Striving to Save will inform and inspire social policy with its breakthrough approach in understanding how low-income families make ends meet while striving to make a better life for themselves and their families. Scholarly work in savings, debt, household finance, and behavior economics will benefit from this pioneering study that provides real-life context for some of the most important issues ... Read more