Poverty and precarity

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

This publication provides a standard compilation of supply and use tables (SUTs) for 19 economies in Asia and the Pacific to help them comply with the United Nations 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) recommendations.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society.

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

Microfinance is widely practicing all over the world spreading into five different continents and different countries.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India's economic growth.

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor.

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations?

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor.

This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

Originally published in 1987, now with a new preface, the focus of this book is the distribution of material resources, notably money, work, care and food, within and between households.

Originally published in 1987, now with a new preface, the focus of this book is the distribution of material resources, notably money, work, care and food, within and between households.

At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings.

The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West.

For over twenty-five years, Charles C.

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today.

What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically?

Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa.

An intimate portrait of India’s child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India.

Every child has the right to read.

What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans?

This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Courts juvenile justice decisions including Miller v.

Homeless.

Poverty may have always been with us, but it hasn't always been the same.

There is much in Vasant Moon's story of his vasti, his childhood neighborhood in India, that would probably be true of any ghetto anywhere in the world.

The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC.

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canadas largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out expose on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country.

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe.

Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor.

The Osage Orange Tree, a never-before-published story by beloved poet William Stafford, is about young love complicated by misunderstanding and the insecurity of adolescence, set against the backdrop of poverty brought on by the Great Depression.

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession.

600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributorsThe first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children.

660 pages, 95 images, 53 contributorsSexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide offers a broad array of information for sexual assault intervention, from the fundamentals of physical evaluation and investigation to in-depth guides to the unique challenges presented by cases of sexual assault.

456 pages, 350 images, with 36 contributorsVolume two in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment series provides an overview of the signs and effects of sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment toward children.

In Break the Caste, George Gerharz unmasks common American misperceptions of poverty, inequality, and social mobility.

132 pages, 56 images, 17 contributors
Advanced-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment builds on the skills demonstrated through completion of the Entry- Level and Intermediate-Level books.

112 pages, 44 images, 16 contributors
Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment allows students to have the opportunity to identify and appropriately label anatomical structures and injuries using objective terminology.

"e;Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.