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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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Thomas Sowell
“ [beware that] “many of what are called social problems are differences between the theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world—differences which many intellectuals interpret to mean that it is the real world that is wrong and needs changing. ”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
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“ International organizations have played a pivotal role is strategic implementation of social policy measures which has led to strengthening the individual fabric of a given society of a single given nation having a trampoline impact effecting the surrounding nations. Much has been done in the past and much is still being done. The question remains would we reach an ideal place of social perfection? That remains a question till this decade, and it seems to me that it will always remain a ques ...more ”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT – A PRIMER:
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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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