In For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home.
Winner of the 2024 Academics Stand Against Poverty Book of the Year Anthology AwardThe problem of poverty is global in scope and has devastating consequences for many essential aspects of life: health, education, political participation, autonomy, and psychological well-being.
Este libro recoge lo esencial de los textos sobre justicia elaborados durante la última década en el Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad – Dejusticia.
La grave situación de derechos humanos que viven los niños y niñas Wayúu en la Alta y Media Guajira, llevó a que a que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos ordenara medidas cautelares en 2015 y a que la Corte Constitucional declarara un Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional en 2017.
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.
La grave situación de derechos humanos que viven los niños y niñas Wayúu en la Alta y Media Guajira, llevó a que a que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos ordenara medidas cautelares en 2015 y a que la Corte Constitucional declarara un Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional en 2017.
Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.
A collection of in-depth essays focused on the health issues facing the poorest populations in the United States as it relates to the common good of all Americans.
As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs.
You Can Make a Global Impact-One Girl at a TimeIn Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face-and the tangible ways we can each make a difference.
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.
