Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes,

Financial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining income

Over the past three decades, average household wealth in the United States has declined among all but the richest families, with a near 80 percent drop among th

Many policymakers argue that the best poverty policy not only provides cash to the poor for subsistence but also incentives and structures that encourage long-t

A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. "Asset-based" approaches to deve