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  • Stretched Thin

    Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform

    by Sandra L. Morgen, Joan Acker, Jill Weigt ...
    When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However, assessments about the assumptions and consequences of this radical change to the nation's social ... Read more

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  • $2.00 A Day

    Living on Almost Nothing in America

    by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThe story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times)Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, ... Read more

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  • So Rich, So Poor

    Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America

    by Peter Edelman ...
    "A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field." — Kirkus ReviewsIncome disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top.In this ... Read more

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  • Perceptual Coherence

    Hearing and Seeing

    by Stephen Handel ...
    The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy. The energy is neutral; it does not specify the objects itself. Thus, sensory systems must abstract the energy that does specify objects and differentiate it from the noise energy. The perceptual variables that specify objects for both listening and looking become those of contrast and ... Read more

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  • Divided

    The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

    by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama ...
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sweet Charity?

    Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

    by Janet Poppendieck ...
    How the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on boardIn this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Flat Broke with Children

    Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

    by Sharon Hays ...
    Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Trapped in America's Safety Net

    One Family's Struggle

    by Andrea Louise Campbell ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A "remarkable" look at the flaws of the social safety net through one family's personal tragedy and the Catch-22 financial disaster that followed (Deborah A. Stone, author of Policy Paradox).When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born ... Read more

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  • Making Volunteers

    Civic Life after Welfare's End

    by Nina Eliasoph ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times ... Read more

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  • The Failed Welfare Revolution

    America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy

    by Brian Steensland ...
    Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation's existing welfare system with a revolutionary program to guarantee Americans basic economic ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Early Intervention

    How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money

    by James Hughes ...
    Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face -- poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems persist in Canada -- in many cases, they are worsening -- and the costs of the social safety net continue to rise.New approaches have been developed by innovators frustrated by the failure of traditional ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

    One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System

    by Susan Sheehan ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Is There No Place on Earth for Me? comes a poignant account exposing the harsh realities of the foster care system."No reader with a conscience, no reader with a heart, will come away from this complicated, infuriating and unforgettable book untouched or unmotivated to instill long-overdue change."--Michael Dorris, author of The Broken ChordOn October 7, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD