Striving to Save: Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families

This book is about the struggles of low-income families trying to build savings accounts. In
Striving to Save , Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride examine savings in eighty-four working families with low incomes, including fifty-nine families who participated in a groundbreaking program of matched savings and financial education. In-depth interviews with these families, along with savings and survey data, shed light on saving in low-income households. The book concludes with recommended public policy approaches for increasing savings in households that are striving to save.