Poverty & Unemployment

Over the years, Congress has authorised and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to other vulnerable ...

Tropical deforestation and rural poverty are among the major apprehensions of developing nations in the 21st century. The protectionist paradigm th...

One of the central features of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is promoting work and job preparation for parents (mo...

The poverty rate increased markedly over the past decade, in part a response to two economic recessions. A strong economy during most of the 1990s ...

Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationIs involuntary psychiatric t...

Winner, 2024 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationIs involuntary psychiatric t...

Can we really end poverty in Britain?Yes, we can.In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from acro...

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a...

Engaging systematically with severe forms of poverty in Europe, this important book stimulates academic, public and policy debate by shedding light...

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a...

________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out,...

Brings together the analysis of older, mostly local welfare policies (including their legal framings and their change over time) with the history o...

Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generatio...

An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry...

This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges i...

Nobody's Burden: Lessons on Old Age from the Great Depression is the first book-length study of the experience of old-age during the Great Depressi...

In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits Nor...

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below US$ 1.90 per day has fallen by close to 800 million. The report explores t...