A layered portraiture of Dalit oppression and ruthless hierarchies in 1980s OdishaSet against the bucolic landscape of undivided Sambalpur, the play follows five Bajnias - professional rural folk performers - whose lives are pushed into a corner by poverty, social discrimination, addiction and illiteracy.
Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.
Comprising a number of short essays, Why the Homeless Have No Chance: The Dismantling of Success documents a sociological journey through the homeless services industry and describes todays wrong-headed approach to this lingering social problem.
A "e;well researched and vigorously written"e; account of social activism, radical politics, and the failed War on Poverty in 1960s Appalachia (Journal of American History).
The goal of this introductory economics textbook is to use economic analysis to determine the causes and solutions to one of the United States' most vexing social problemspoverty.
A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.
An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime.
This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in East African and Southern African countries.
This issue highlights the economic prospects of the Pacific developing member countries (Pacific DMCs) and stresses the importance of improving the quality and access to basic and sustainable utilities in the Pacific DMCs.
In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand.
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades.
Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments.
En 1917 la Revolución Rusa intentó la búsqueda de la igualdad implosionando luego el sistema conformado por grandes burocracias y la falta de incentivo en el desarrollo personal.
DIE VERMESSUNG SOZIALER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITENDAS ARCHIV MEINER SOZIALEN WUTGeschichten von der UNTEREN KLASSE, Literatur über SOZIALE HERKUNFT – meist sind das Erzählungen von AUFBRUCH und AUFSTIEG.
This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams.
This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.
