Rethinking Poverty: Income, Assets, and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition

by James P. Bailey

In Rethinking Poverty, James P. Bailey argues that most contemporary policies aimed at reducing poverty in the United States are flawed because they focus solely on insufficient income. Bailey argues that traditional policies such as minimum wage laws, food stamps, housing subsidies, earned income tax credits, and other forms of cash and non-cash income supports need to be complemented by efforts that enable the poor to save and accumulate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268022232
• ISBN13: 9780268022235
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"