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Striving to Save : Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472021819
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Striving to SaveDDC classification:
  • 332.0240086/942
LOC classification:
  • HG1660
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Saving in Low-Income Households -- 1. Research on Matched Savings in Low-Income Households -- 2. Theory and Evidence on Saving in Low-Income Households -- 3. Setting the Stage: Economic Socialization and Coming-of-Age in a Working-Poor Family -- 4. Managing Household Finances and Making Ends Meet on a Low Income -- 5. Problem Debt and Creditworthiness -- 6. Striving to Save -- 7. Saving in Individual Development Accounts -- 8. Saving Strategies in Individual Development Accounts -- 9. Effects of IDA Program Participation -- Conclusion: Saving Theory, Policy, and Research -- Appendixes -- A. IDA Participants' Demographics and IDA Saving Experiences -- B. Control Respondent Demographic Characteristics -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: The struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Saving in Low-Income Households -- 1. Research on Matched Savings in Low-Income Households -- 2. Theory and Evidence on Saving in Low-Income Households -- 3. Setting the Stage: Economic Socialization and Coming-of-Age in a Working-Poor Family -- 4. Managing Household Finances and Making Ends Meet on a Low Income -- 5. Problem Debt and Creditworthiness -- 6. Striving to Save -- 7. Saving in Individual Development Accounts -- 8. Saving Strategies in Individual Development Accounts -- 9. Effects of IDA Program Participation -- Conclusion: Saving Theory, Policy, and Research -- Appendixes -- A. IDA Participants' Demographics and IDA Saving Experiences -- B. Control Respondent Demographic Characteristics -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts.

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