Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion

This individual section of the Financial Independence postconfrence report provides a basic framework for suggesting that income and asset policies must be pursued together to truly solve poverty. It also provides a framework for understanding poverty as a financial capability problem. In doing so, it contends that poverty is not only about today but also the kinds of futures families, and their children can achieve. Produce financially capable people requires that policy provides access to financial institutions, economic resources in the form of income and assets, and financial literacy training.

We are providing the different sections of the report as individual sections for those who might not want to print the full report. Further, to shorten each individual section the references for each individual section can be found in the full report.