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Homelessness in New York City by Main Thomas J.;
epub |eng | | Author:Main, Thomas J.;

While this Court seriously doubts the wisdom of a regulation that potentially causes small children or infants to be consigned to the streets for their parents’ or caretakers’ infractions or ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide by Pipes Sally C
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Pipes, Sally C. [Pipes, Sally C.]

* * * Myth Nine: Health Information Technology Is a Silver Bullet for Reducing Costs a By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
Orwell on Freedom by George Orwell
epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

‘Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?’ ‘Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
Smoke Signals by Martin A. Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Martin A. Lee

The police, meanwhile, had seized nearly everything the Kubbys owned, including all their office equipment, which they used to operate an online magazine devoted to extreme winter sports. As a ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
Clear and Present Safety by Michael A. Cohen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael A. Cohen

The Smart Response to 9/11 One of the great ironies of 9/11 is that the initial response to the worst terrorist attack on American soil was smart, modest, and appropriate. ...
( Category: Social Policy March 13,2020 )
The Happiness Policy Handbook by Laura Musikanski
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Laura Musikanski

The Happiness Index The Happiness Alliance’s Happiness Index is a scientifically valid measure of happiness and well-being. The text of the survey and an online platform for surveying a population ...
( Category: Canadian March 13,2020 )
Systemic Design by Peter Jones & Kyoichi Kijima
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jones & Kyoichi Kijima

How to Structure a Discussion About Resilience Working from a systems viewpoint raises some important issues that occur when dealing with multiple stakeholders who have varying perspectives, working at different ...
( Category: Social Policy March 13,2020 )
Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets by Adrian V. Gheorghe Dan V. Vamanu Polinpapilinho F. Katina & Roland Pulfer
epub |eng | | Author:Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina & Roland Pulfer

A Complex Situation shows a living system of systems landscape and there involved and concerned entities driven by a specific stressor (event) under specific circumstances. Each component is documented as ...
( Category: Social Policy March 12,2020 )
The Glass Half-Empty by Rodrigo Aguilera
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Rodrigo Aguilera

Figure 6.17: The rewards of growth in the US have gone to the rich Note: This chart shows the share of income received by the bottom 90%, the top 1%, ...
( Category: Social Policy March 12,2020 )
High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing (Voice of Witness) by Audrey Petty
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Audrey Petty [Petty, Audrey]

CABRINI-GREEN, DEMOLITION CHANDRA BELL AGE: 39 OCCUPATION: Hospice caregiver FORMER RESIDENT OF: Cabrini-Green Chandra lived in Cabrini-Green between 1972 and 1995. She now lives with her youngest child in a ...
( Category: Social Policy March 12,2020 )
Press Freedom as an International Human Right by Wiebke Lamer
epub |eng | | Author:Wiebke Lamer

4.4.1 The Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Early Days of the UN Human Rights Agenda Press freedom entered the international debate early on. What is ...
( Category: Social Policy March 12,2020 )
Social Dynamics in Swiss Society by Robin Tillmann Marieke Voorpostel & Peter Farago
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Tillmann, Marieke Voorpostel & Peter Farago

<SimplePara><Emphasis Type="Bold">Open Access</Emphasis> This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium ...
( Category: Social Policy March 11,2020 )
Usual Cruelty by Alec Karakatsanis
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:Alec Karakatsanis

XVII Most law review articles begin with a roadmap. Most novels do not. Lawyers are obsessed with the reader getting one meaning from a text. This is perhaps the law’s ...
( Category: Social Policy March 11,2020 )
Cultures of Social Justice Leadership by Pamela S. Angelle & Deirdre Torrance
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela S. Angelle & Deirdre Torrance

What Is Social Justice? Social justice is a contested term and concept. Brooks (2008) notes that, ‘Justice is both an abstract “big” idea and also a concrete “little” idea’ (p. ...
( Category: Social Policy March 9,2020 )
Measuring What Counts by Joseph E. Stiglitz
epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

Note: Based on the following panel data collections: ECHP, EU-SILC, CPS, CNEF (BHPS, SOEP, HILDA, KLIPS, SHP, SLID). For each country, the period covered is indicated on the horizontal axis. ...
( Category: Social Policy March 8,2020 )

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