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Illusions of prosperity
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Joel Blau |
"In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of t… |
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Women and children last
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Ruth Sidel |
Includes material on welfare, family policy, day care, and Swedish practice. |
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Science for society
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Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro |
This volume offers practical wisdom for improving public policy to help children and families. Four prominent psychologists illustrate the dual commitment to science and children that is necessary to… |
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Poverty, inequality, and the future of social policy
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Wilson, William J.,Roger Lawson,Katherine McFate |
During the prosperous 1980s, increased unemployment and widening income inequality throughout the Western world raised the paradoxical specter of a new and acute form of poverty in advanced economies… |
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Social policy
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Michael J. Hill |
This is an overview of social policy which deals with policy issues. In doing so it introduces key concepts, issues about the performance of policies and the ways in which writers have sought to expl… |
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A European Welfare State?
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Mark Kleinman |
"European integration arouses strong emotions. For some people a strong European social policy is essential in order to reverse the erosion of national welfare states. Others resent the 'Brussels' in… |
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