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Social Policy


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 First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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”

Charles Wheelan
“ When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the streets. Part of that problem is political will; we could take a lot of people off the streets tomorrow if we made it a national priority. But I have also come to realize that NASA had it easy. Rockets conform to the unchanging laws of physics. We know where the moon will be at a given time; we know precisely how fas ...more ”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
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“ The anomalies in the field of social service sector can be regulated with strategic partnerships and ethic-infused prioritized channelization of resources and appropriately devised practical social policies. ”
― 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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