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Social Policy Books

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Poverty, by America
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Just Mercy
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction
Capital in the Twenty First Century
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Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsMoving Out, Moving On by Shelley MallettHomelessness and Social Policy by Roger BurrowsThe Wintringham Story by Elaine FarrellyAt Risk of Homelessness by Karin Ringheim
Homelessness Week
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Quotes Tagged “Social Policy”

“ Poverty is an age-old concept , which is corelated with enjoyment of necessities of life and that it is an evil which the world is fighting till date. Poverty alleviating shibboleths such as philanthropy, social service schemes, social reforms, reformative policies etc, seem fatuous yielding exiguous results. ”
― Henrietta Newton Martin , Legal Counsel , Author- Social Policy and Law
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Jordan Flaherty
“ Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it. ”
― Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
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Groups Tagged "Social Policy"

Australian Reform Reading Group For those who want to get together and discuss literature that speaks to reform in Australia.
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