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Citizen Wealth

Autor Wade Rathke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2009
America’s safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow the gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold in the last twenty-five years. For millions of working families, achieving basic middle-class comforts has begun to seem as distant a dream as winning the lottery. What is needed, and what veteran organizer and ACORN founder Wade Rathke provides in this hard-hitting new book, is a comprehensive grassroots strategy to create what he calls citizen wealth: an enduring foundation on which working people can build a future that extends beyond paying next month’s rent. Rathke shares breakthrough strategies that have enabled ACORN and other organizations help people secure the basics of citizen wealth a house and a decent income offering from-the-trenches advice on mounting successful living wage campaigns, battling unscrupulous and predatory lending practices, and developing new forms of worker organizations to protect wages and benefits. Existing antipoverty programs can provide critical support for citizen wealth-building efforts, but they’re woefully underutilized. Rathke shows how to cut through government indifference and bureaucratic obstacles to provide those in need with access to these vital resources.
But community organizations can’t do it alone. Rathke describes ACORN partnerships with HSBC Bank and H&R Block that helped these businesses see building citizen wealth as a new market opportunity a win for them and for the people they once exploited. And he looks at other examples of strange bedfellows in the fight for citizen wealth, including Citibank, once the target of massive protests by ACORN and now, working with it, a major investor in working-class communities.
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ISBN-13: 9781576758625
ISBN-10: 1576758621
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 161 x 244 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: McGraw Hill Education
Colecția Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Locul publicării:United Kingdom