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Rethinking poverty : income, assets, and the Catholic social justice tradition /
In this work the author argues that most contemporary policies aimed at reducing poverty in the United States are flawed because they focus solely on insufficient income. He contends that traditional policies such as minimum wage laws, food stamps, housing subsidies, earned income tax credits, and o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Catholic social tradition series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why Asset Building for the Poor?
- The Income Paradigm
- The Welfare Reform Debate of 1996: An Income-Paradigm Debate
- The Asset Paradigm
- The Role of Current Policy: Exacerbating Wealth Inequality
- Assets, the Poor, and Catholic Social Teaching.
- Asset Building for the Poor and Catholic Social Thought
- Property and Ownership in Catholic Social Teaching
- Contributions of Catholic Social Thought to Asset-Building Policy
- Contributions of Asset-Building Research to Catholic Social Thought
- Assets and Human Capabilities.
- Globalization and the Need for a Cross-Cultural Ethic Capabilities and Assets
- Asset Discrimination.
- Asset Discrimination in U.S. History
- The Stubborn Persistence of Asset Discrimination
- The Cost of Asset Denial
- Conclusion
- Toward Inclusive Ownership.
- Asset Development for the Poor: Retrieving a Lost Tradition
- Are Asset-Building Proposals Politically Viable?
- The Promise and Perils of Asset Building for the Poor
- Appendix: A Primer on Modern Catholic Social Teaching.