As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs.
This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.
A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure poverty.
A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publicationThe poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.
This detailed book is a resource for students, practitioners, and leaders interested in how the major world religions have understood poverty and responded to the poor.
Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States-the most affluent country in the world-this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.
A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure poverty.
Arbeit für alle und dazu noch existenzsichernd ist ein hoher Anspruch, der in Zeiten knapper werdender Förderungen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit nicht an Bedeutung verliert, sondern kreativ verfolgt werden sollte.
Tener presente lo que heredamos del siglo pasado puede ayudarnos a comprender mejor nuestra realidad social y sobre todo a situarnos en el espacio público actual de México, señala Jorge Rendón Alarcón.
La obra de Isabel Núñez refleja algunas estrategias que emplea el Estado moderno neoliberal como forma de control y de acumulación por despojo que viven las mujeres y los hombres jóvenes en el barrio de Tepito.
Profesores y estudiantes de posgrado en filosofia de universidades mexicanas nos hemos dado a la tarea de reflexionar y dar inteligibilidad a los hechos de violencia politica que sacuden hoy en dia al pais.
Francisco, profeta y pastor, desenmascara las causas de la pobreza desacralizando estructuras injustas que han sido divinizadas, y llama a la misericordia como otro modo de justicia.
La asociación del Estado de derecho y del Estado social debía permitir construir una "sociedad de semejantes" donde, a falta de una estricta igualdad, todos pudieran ser reconocidos como personas independientes y resguardadas contra los avatares de la existencia (desempleo, vejez, enfermedad, accidentes de trabajo, entre otras); "protegidos", en una palabra.
An extraordinary meditation on experience, writing, and space, My Two Worlds is about a writer lost in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, searching for a park.
This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.
The renowned FreewayBlogger, aka Patrick Randall, tells the story of one of his earliest decision to take direct actionhe hears a report of poverty in Mexico, loads up his trusty old VW bus and hits the road with half a ton of clothes, no map, some good tunes and a sense of adventure.
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults.
