Strategic Communication

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108580/1/CommunicationsPartII.pd

Children's Savings Accounts

The purpose of this is to highlight the potential of children's savings accounts to combat long-term economic disadvantage within Good Neighborhoods communities and to identify possible models and approaches. Such accounts have several goals: • To encourage savings behavior early in life. This will allow families to take advantage of compound interest and connect more people to the larger economic system. • To provide a hands-on opportunity to increase the financial understanding of both children and their adult caregivers. • To create a mechanism that builds tangible economic resources for children living within the Good Neighborhoods communities that can expand the range of options available to each as they transition to adulthood.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108538/1/GNI_Children_s_Savings_accounts_Shanks_tche.pd

Communication: A Brief Highlighting Ideas and Examples

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108579/1/Communicationsbrief.pd

Capacity Building

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108578/1/CapacityBuilding.pd

Asset-Building Policy as a Response to Wealth Inequality: Drawing Implications From the Homestead Act

Asset-building policy is a complementary alternative to income replacement policies that simply subsidize short-term consumption (Sherraden, 1991). This approach may seem novel, but the Homestead Act provides historical precedent for federal involvement in promoting asset development for individuals. This one policy allowed 1.5 million households to receive 246 million acres of land. More importantly, it provided a tangible asset that could also benefit future generations

Family Structure and Behavior: Implications for Research on a CYSAPD

Family Structure and Behavior: Implications for Research on a CYSAP

The Homestead Act of the Nineteenth Century and Its Influence on Rural Lands

The Homestead Act of the Nineteenth Century and Its Influence on Rural Land

The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines the influence of wealth relative to income across several child development outcomes. The wealth measures include net worth and whether the household has certain specific asset holdings. The child development measures cover two domains: academic achievement and socio-emotional behavior. The intent is to examine which measures of wealth have the most explanatory value with respect to child development outcomes and test whether these are distinct from income. Results show that wealth is a significant predictor of two out of three dependent variables and that these predictors have different effects across racial groups

Inequality and Child Well-Being: Implications for Research

Inequality and Child Well-Being: Implications for Researc

African-American: Building the Country, Losing the Land

African-American: Building the Country, Losing the Lan