A Fragile Balance : Emergency Savings and Liquid Resources for Low-Income Consumers
ISBN: 9781137482372
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Business/ Management; Economics;

A Fragile Balance examines strategies to promote emergency savings, especially among underserved households. Each chapter is by an expert contributor and proposes an innovative financial product or service designed to bolster emergency savings among low-asset families. This collection also offers readers insights into the role of emergency savings and mechanisms to facilitate savings behaviors, and raises critical questions of the scale, institutional capacity, sustainability, accessibility, and effectiveness of existing programs.

Dan Ariely, Duke University, USA Sonya Caesar, Community College of Baltimore County, USA Krista Comer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Jessica Dorrance, University of North Carolina, USA Karan Gill, King County Council, WA, USA Leah Gjertson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Jayson Halladay, Piggymojo, USA Karen Heisler, Rural Dynamics Inc., USA Sharon Henderson, Prosperity Works, USA Ingrid Holguin, Opportunity Fund, USA Clinton Key, The Pew Charitable Trusts, USA Ed Khashadourian, Opportunity to Assets, USA Cäzilia Loibl, The Ohio State University, USA Seth Lutter, Rural Dynamics, Inc., USA Kim Manturuk, Duke University, USA Margaret McKenna, ConTEXT, USA Benita Melton, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, USA Dana Mills, The Prosperity Agenda, USA Jonathan Mintz, Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, USA Stephanie Moulton, The Ohio State University, USA Dana Perantie, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Blair Russell, Center for Social Development, USA Anya Samak, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis University, USA

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