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The Visible Poor : Homelessness in the United States
Joel Blau
Paperback - $65.95
Taking an in-depth look at the causes of homelessness in the U.S., Blau debunks the convenient myths that most homeless are crazy, drug addicts, or lazy misfits who brought their suffering upon themselves. He argues that current government policies a ...
The Word on the Street : Homeless Men in Las Vegas
Kurt Borchard
Paperback - $35.95
Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city's homeless people are largely invisible, segre ...
Safety Net Programs and Poverty Reduction : Lessons from Cross-Country Experience
Jeanine Braithwaite
Paperback - $42.95
The need for social safety nets has become a key component of poverty reduction strategies. Over the past three decades several developing countries have launched a variety of programs, including cash transfers, subsidies in-kind, public works, and i ...
Unpacking Policy. Knowledge, Actors and Spaces in Poverty Reduction in Uganda and Nigeria
Karen Brock
Paperback - $54.95
The English Poor Laws, 1700-1930
Anthony Brundage
Hardcover - $222.95
The English Poor Laws, 1700-1930 traces the laws' development from localized measures of poor relief designed primarily for rural communities to an increasingly centralized system attempting to grapple with the urgent crises of urban poverty. Some of ...
Not by Bread Alone : Social Support in the New Russia
Melissa L. Caldwell
Paperback - $50.95
What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex--if no less necessary and nourishing--than the food that feeds their hunger. In "Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnograph ...
Impossible Democracy : The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs
Noel A. Cazenave
Paperback - $51.95
Impossible Democracy : The Unlikely Successs of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs
Noel A. Cazenave
Hardcover - $158.95
Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protest-based community reform.