Describes innovative theoretical approaches to the emerging field of community economic development (CED), and demonstrates how community leaders, residents, social workers, city planners, and local business owners can work together to promote successful CED. Subjects include self employment as an intervention for recipients of AFDC, the Grameen Ba
Describes innovative theoretical approaches to the emerging field of community economic development (CED), and demonstrates how community leaders, res...
"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 of our day." ---Tom Shapiro, Brandeis University"The central contribution of the book is to use original qualitative research to provide readers with a nuanced understanding of the...
"Striving to Save will inform and inspire social policy with its breakthrough approach in understanding how low-income families make ends meet ...