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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,045 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,755 ratings — published 2023
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,447 ratings — published 1995
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.85 — 716 ratings — published 1983
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.93 — 348 ratings — published 1989
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,054 ratings — published 2014
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.79 — 107 ratings — published 1992
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,550 ratings — published 2001
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,179 ratings — published 2009
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,036 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,366 ratings — published 2010
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,642 ratings — published 2018
The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 1990
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.50 — 21,764 ratings — published 2015
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,594 ratings — published 2013
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,343 ratings — published 2015
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,230 ratings — published 2016
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 821 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.72 — 39 ratings — published 2001
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.74 — 136 ratings — published 1986
From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.69 — 317 ratings — published 1974
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,000 ratings — published 2004
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,939 ratings — published 2012
How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2003
Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.46 — 37 ratings — published 1994
Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.63 — 35 ratings — published 1992
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,255 ratings — published 1968
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,448 ratings — published 2021
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,809 ratings — published 2018
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.66 — 311 ratings — published 2022
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 2001
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 376 ratings — published 1899
Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,319 ratings — published 2018
Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 2015
The Limits of Social Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1988
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 660 ratings — published
Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.82 — 621 ratings — published 2015
Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 213 ratings — published 2021
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,457 ratings — published 2013
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,308 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,456 ratings — published 2016
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,918 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,155 ratings — published 2003
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,434 ratings — published 2018
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,682 ratings — published 2017
The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 3.90 — 144 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,853 ratings — published 2018
Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2013
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 145 ratings — published 2013
“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”
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“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.”
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