Poverty
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Mehrsa Baradaran

The Free Market Confronts Black Poverty No sooner had the complicated, overdue, and incomplete racial turmoil of the civil rights era subsided than a rewriting of its history began. The ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Harry M. Caudill [Caudill , Harry M.]

Chapter Fifteen: The Legacy of the Thirties The massive passing of coal companies shut thousands of miners off from even the scanty benefit of two or three workdays per week ...
( Category: Poverty September 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Kerry Hudson

17 Hetton-le-Hole 2018 The trip to Hetton-le-Hole didn’t start normally. It started at an award ceremony in Newcastle where I was to present some writing prizes that I’d judged. It ...
( Category: Poverty September 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Dean Karlan

Getting the Poor to Save The fact is that most poor people do not have savings accounts, commitment-based or otherwise, and conventional wisdom has a simple explanation for this. They’re ...
( Category: Poverty September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Katherine S. Newman

Gen X workers everywhere are seeing the consequences of cost pressures that are producing a thinning workforce, a speedup for those who remain, and a degraded quality of work due ...
( Category: Retirement Planning August 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Emily Guendelsberger

“When you started, the actual parts were all manufactured here, too, correct?” I ask Douglas, a salesperson in another showroom who’s been in furniture for more than a quarter century. ...
( Category: Social Policy July 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Wise

In short, the rich didn’t build their fortunes: the labor of others who were underpaid for their trouble did. Capitalists, it turns out, may be the most dependent people on ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 17,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Paul, Christopher A. [Paul, Christopher A.]

Achievement Culture: Proving Your Skill The dominance of skill and merit in video games reaches well beyond individual games and into the larger framework of video games and how they ...
( Category: Poverty July 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Clayton M. Christensen & Efosa Ojomo & Karen Dillon

NOTES 1.“Vicente Fox,” PBS interview Commanding Heights, interview conducted April 4, 2001, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_vicentefox.html. 2.From the OECD website: “GDP per hour worked is a measure of labour productivity. It measures how ...
( Category: Strategic Planning July 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-22 | Author:Monica MacDonald

5 The One Big Story: Canada: A People’s History Canada: A People’s History The 1995 referendum on Quebec sovereignty struck fear into the hearts of many Canadians. The first referendum ...
( Category: Poverty June 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:Scott W. Allard & Scott Allard [Allard, Scott W.]

Local variation in nonprofit service provision is striking and important to consider for many reasons. First, the nonprofit capacity of the safety net does not to appear to have expanded ...
( Category: Social Policy June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Chris Arnade

* * * • • • Getting by in Cairo is tough. Walking around feels like surveying the damage long after a natural disaster. Entire neighborhoods are just grids of ...
( Category: Cultural Policy June 5,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:D. Watkins

PART 3 NEVER PATRIOTS 10 I’M SICK OF WOKE “Big bruh, I got these #StayWoke shirts for twenty dollars!” said the dude I’ve bought my incense from for over five ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mitchell Jackson

CALL 2 Another time, another call: “So tell me, what’s your idea of a patriot?” I said. “Hmm. I’d say a patriot is someone who believes in their country, who’s ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-12 | Author:Mark Kingwell

REASON WITHIN REASON Traditional scientific method might be considered, with some justice, the ideal form of discursive scaffolding. In addition to providing essential curbs on bias and prejudice – falsifiability, ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies May 13,2019 )