Mary Ager is a social worker and Associate Professor of Social Work who examines poverty in the U.S. as a relationship between social policy and the market economy. Her scholarly work covers consumer borrowing among people who are low-income, the neoliberal shift in social policy, and community-based interventions that make borrowing less costly and risky.
Mary Ager's Research Interests
- Credit, borrowing and debt
- Social policy
- Community-based poverty interventions
- Reaching about poverty
- Multidimensional poverty measures
- Social Development