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The Role Of Public Policy In Reducing Poverty And Expanding Economic Opportunity

Helping America's poor build assets is one of the most cost‐effective and sustainable improvements we can make as a society. While policymakers seeking to reduce poverty have traditionally focused on income, spending, and consumption, a new vision has steadily gained prominence in recent years, focusing on savings, investment, and asset‐building policies that work in conjunction with, not instead of, traditional anti‐poverty policies and programs.

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