Social Work’s Response to Poverty: From Benefits Dependence to Economic Self-Sufficiency

This article appears in the Journal of Social Work Education’s Special Section on Financial Capability and Asset Building. An earlier version of this article was presented during the April 2015 conference Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

Project: Financial Capability & Asset Building