What’s asset development?
It’s how the poor get rich, dude. It’s how we stick it to the man!
Okay, it’s actually just “developing savings and asset accumulation mechanisms that are inclusive of the whole population,” so says the way-smarter-than-I-am folks at the Center for Social Development.
Read the book that launched the field, Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy. And keep reading my blog to hear the latest news and break-throughs that I happen to find out about.
